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Tax to Death
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Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Creature
Seizan, Perverter of Truth (j22) 463

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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.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Angel's Trumpet

All creatures have vigilance. At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. Angel's Trumpet deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Artifact
Angel's Trumpet (ulg) 121
Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Artifact
Anvil of Bogardan (vis) 141
Armageddon Clock

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a doom counter on Armageddon Clock. At the beginning of your draw step, Armageddon Clock deals damage equal to the number of doom counters on it to each player. {4}: Remove a doom counter from Armageddon Clock. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Artifact
Armageddon Clock (me4) 180
Assault Suit

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Artifact
Assault Suit (cmm) 369
Blade of Selves

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Equip {4}

Artifact
Blade of Selves (clb) 301
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.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Bottled Cloister

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, exile all cards from your hand face down. At the beginning of your upkeep, return all cards you own exiled with Bottled Cloister to your hand, then draw a card.

Artifact
Bottled Cloister (rvr) 252
Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146
Coercive Portal

Will of the council — At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

Artifact
Coercive Portal (cns) 56
Cosmos Elixir

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.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Cryptolith Fragment

Artifact
Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193
Cursed Rack

As Cursed Rack enters, choose an opponent. The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Artifact
Cursed Rack (4ed) 312
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Decimator Web

{4}, {T}: Target opponent loses 2 life, gets a poison counter, then mills six cards.

Artifact
Decimator Web (mbs) 105
Demon's Horn

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

Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Ebony Owl Netsuke

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has seven or more cards in hand, Ebony Owl Netsuke deals 4 damage to that player.

Artifact
Ebony Owl Netsuke (sok) 154
Echo Chamber

{4}, {T}: An opponent chooses target creature they control. Create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste until end of turn. Exile the token at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Echo Chamber (tmp) 282
Fountain of Renewal

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

Artifact
Fountain of Renewal (plst) M19-235
Fraying Line

When Fraying Line enters, put a rope counter on target creature you control. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay {2}. If they do, they put a rope counter on a creature they control. Otherwise, exile Fraying Line and each creature without a rope counter on it, then remove all rope counters from all creatures.

Artifact
Fraying Line (clb) 314
God-Pharaoh's Statue

Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.

Artifact
God-Pharaoh's Statue (war) 238
Golem's Heart

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

Artifact
Golem's Heart (plst) SOM-161
Infinite Hourglass

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on Infinite Hourglass. All creatures get +1/+0 for each time counter on Infinite Hourglass. {3}: Remove a time counter from Infinite Hourglass. Any player may activate this ability but only during any upkeep step.

Artifact
Infinite Hourglass (ice) 323
Iron Maiden

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Iron Maiden deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Artifact
Iron Maiden (ulg) 127
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (plst) MRD-188
Isolation Cell

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

Artifact
Isolation Cell (nph) 141
Ivory Crane Netsuke

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

Artifact
Ivory Crane Netsuke (sok) 155
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (brr) 86
Karn's Sylex

Karn's Sylex enters tapped. Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. {X}, {T}, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Karn's Sylex (dmu) 234
Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Artifact
Library of Leng (30a) 551
Lich's Tomb

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever you lose life, sacrifice a permanent for each 1 life you lost. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Lich's Tomb (dst) 128
Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Mind's Eye (bbd) 240
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Misers' Cage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has five or more cards in hand, Misers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player.

Artifact
Misers' Cage (mir) 311
Model of Unity

Whenever players finish voting, you and each opponent who voted for a choice you voted for may scry 2. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Model of Unity (ltc) 488
Onyx Talisman

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {3}. If you do, untap target permanent.

Artifact
Onyx Talisman (ice) 331
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.

Artifact
Paradise Plume (c21) 255
Paupers' Cage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Paupers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player.

Artifact
Paupers' Cage (mir) 314
Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
Skullcage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Skullcage deals 2 damage to that player unless they have exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Artifact
Skullcage (arc) 115
Soul Net

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Soul Net (30a) 267
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
Storm Cauldron

Each player may play an additional land during each of their turns. Whenever a land is tapped for mana, return it to its owner's hand.

Artifact
Storm Cauldron (7ed) 320★
Tempting Contract

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent may create a Treasure token. For each opponent who does, you create a Treasure token.

Artifact
Tempting Contract (c21) 78
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Throne of Bone

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

Artifact
Throne of Bone (30a) 566
Umbilicus

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay 2 life. If they don't, they return a permanent they control to its owner's hand.

Artifact
Umbilicus (dmr) 237
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.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273
Ward of Bones

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't cast creature spells. The same is true for artifacts and enchantments. Each opponent who controls more lands than you can't play lands.

Artifact
Ward of Bones (eve) 174
Well of Knowledge

{2}: Draw a card. Any player may activate this ability but only during their draw step.

Artifact
Well of Knowledge (wth) 162
Wheel of Torture

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Wheel of Torture (plst) ULG-138

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Aku Djinn

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature each opponent controls.

Creature
Aku Djinn (vis) 51
Archfiend of Depravity

Flying At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature
Archfiend of Depravity (scd) 67
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.)

Creature
Archfiend of Despair (cmm) 137
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.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Banshee of the Dread Choir

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever Banshee of the Dread Choir deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Banshee of the Dread Choir (cma) 47
Battlefield Butcher

{5}, {T}: Each opponent loses 2 life. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each creature card in your graveyard.

Creature
Battlefield Butcher (bro) 86
Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Blood Seeker (m12) 81
Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84
Cackling Imp

Flying {T}: Target player loses 1 life.

Creature
Cackling Imp (plst) DDC-41
Chancellor of the Dross

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way. Flying, lifelink

Creature
Chancellor of the Dross (nph) 54
Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste When Clackbridge Troll enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap Clackbridge Troll, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Creature
Clackbridge Troll (eld) 84
Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step. {2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.

Creature
Coffin Queen (tmp) 114
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.

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j22) 21
Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Desecration Demon

Flying At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Desecration Demon (mm3) 66
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (j22) 411
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.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Garrulous Sycophant

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

Creature
Garrulous Sycophant (cn2) 43
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.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
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.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Grim Guardian

Constellation — Whenever Grim Guardian or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Grim Guardian (jou) 73
Grudge Keeper

Whenever players finish voting, each opponent who voted for a choice you didn't vote for loses 2 life.

Creature
Grudge Keeper (cns) 28
Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Flying At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Herald of Anguish (brc) 108
Hollowborn Barghest

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have no cards in hand, each opponent loses 2 life. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Hollowborn Barghest (shm) 68
Indulgent Tormentor

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

Creature
Indulgent Tormentor (scd) 81
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Master of the Feast

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Creature Enchantment
Master of the Feast (jou) 75
Mind Raker

Devoid (This card has no color.) When Mind Raker enters, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Mind Raker (bfz) 95
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 546
Nakaya Shade

{B}: Nakaya Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

Creature
Nakaya Shade (pcy) 69
Phantasmagorian

When you cast this spell, any player may discard three cards. If a player does, counter Phantasmagorian. Discard three cards: Return Phantasmagorian from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Phantasmagorian (plc) 77
Pontiff of Blight

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.)

Creature
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Prowling Pangolin

When Prowling Pangolin enters, any player may sacrifice two creatures of their choice. If a player does, sacrifice Prowling Pangolin.

Creature
Prowling Pangolin (plst) EMA-104
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (mkc) 234
Rackling

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Rackling deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Creature Artifact
Rackling (nem) 136
Scandalmonger

{2}: Target player discards a card. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

Creature
Scandalmonger (mmq) 158
Sedgemoor Witch

Menace Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker (clb) 148
Smolder Initiate

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

Creature
Smolder Initiate (shm) 78
The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This creature can't block." {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
The Raven Man (dmu) 103
Thieving Amalgam

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Thieving Amalgam (c19) 21
Thoughtrender Lamia

Constellation — Whenever Thoughtrender Lamia or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Enchantment
Thoughtrender Lamia (jou) 85
Viseling

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Creature Artifact
Viseling (c13) 269
Vrock

Flying Toxic Spores — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Vrock (clb) 157
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6
Wicked Visitor

Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Wicked Visitor (woe) 118
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.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (plst) JMP-18

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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.

Enchantment
Baneful Omen (roe) 96
Blood Reckoning

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

Enchantment
Blood Reckoning (m13) 81
Bloodchief Ascension

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.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Contaminated Bond

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

Enchantment
Contaminated Bond (10e) 132
Contaminated Ground

Enchant land Enchanted land is a Swamp. Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

Enchantment
Contaminated Ground (gtc) 59
Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters, 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.

Enchantment
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114
Creeping Dread

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Each opponent who discarded a card that shares a card type with the card you discarded loses 3 life. (Players reveal the discarded cards simultaneously.)

Enchantment
Creeping Dread (soi) 104
Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123
Curse of Disturbance

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Disturbance (scd) 74
Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{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.)

Enchantment
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Curse of Vengeance

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player casts a spell, put a spite counter on Curse of Vengeance. When enchanted player loses the game, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of spite counters on Curse of Vengeance.

Enchantment
Curse of Vengeance (c16) 12
Dark Suspicions

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player loses X life, where X is the number of cards in that player's hand minus the number of cards in your hand.

Enchantment
Dark Suspicions (plst) PLS-40
Death Watch

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses life equal to its power and you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Death Watch (vis) 57
Dictate of Erebos

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

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
Dogged Pursuit

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

Enchantment
Dogged Pursuit (khm) 85
Endbringer's Revel

{4}: Return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Endbringer's Revel (pcy) 63
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
Forsaken Wastes

Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Enchantment
Forsaken Wastes (mir) 125
Hissing Miasma

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Hissing Miasma (gpt) 51
Koskun Falls

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Koskun Falls unless you tap an untapped creature you control. Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Koskun Falls (hml) 55
Lethal Vapors

Whenever a creature enters, destroy it. {0}: Destroy Lethal Vapors. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Enchantment
Lethal Vapors (scg) 68
Lich's Mastery

Hexproof You can't lose the game. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard. When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Liliana's Caress

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment
Liliana's Caress (m11) 103
Marchesa's Decree

When Marchesa's Decree enters, you become the monarch. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (cn2) 44
Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Megrim (m10) 104
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 308
Painful Quandary

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

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 111
Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Palace Siege (c17) 119
Price of Knowledge

Players have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Price of Knowledge deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Enchantment
Price of Knowledge (c13) 89
Protection Racket

At the beginning of your upkeep, repeat the following process for each opponent in turn order. Reveal the top card of your library. That player may pay life equal to that card's mana value. If they do, exile that card. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Protection Racket (ncc) 39
Quest for the Nihil Stone

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may put a quest counter on Quest for the Nihil Stone. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand and Quest for the Nihil Stone has two or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 5 life.

Enchantment
Quest for the Nihil Stone (plst) WWK-64
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.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

Enchantment
Shrieking Affliction (rtr) 76
Soul Enervation

Flash When Soul Enervation enters, target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Soul Enervation (mkm) 106
Subversion

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enchantment
Subversion (ulg) 68
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
Underworld Dreams

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

Enchantment
Underworld Dreams (thb) 121
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (c16) 117
Words of Waste

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each opponent discards a card instead.

Enchantment
Words of Waste (ons) 182
Worms of the Earth

Players can't play lands. Lands can't enter the battlefield. At the beginning of each upkeep, any player may sacrifice two lands of their choice or have Worms of the Earth deal 5 damage to that player. If a player does either, destroy Worms of the Earth.

Enchantment
Worms of the Earth (drk) 56
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.)

Enchantment
Wound Reflection (2xm) 113

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Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Culling the Weak (exo) 55
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes. Counter target spell.

Instant
Dash Hopes (plst) PLC-68
False Cure

Until end of turn, whenever a player gains life, that player loses 2 life for each 1 life they gained.

Instant
False Cure (ons) 146
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.

Instant
Gang Up (bbd) 47
Grave Consequences

Each player may exile any number of cards from their graveyard. Then each player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Grave Consequences (jud) 67
Grave Endeavor

Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.

Instant
Grave Endeavor (afc) 24
Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
Kaervek's Spite

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice all permanents you control and discard your hand. Target player loses 5 life.

Instant
Kaervek's Spite (vis) 63
Kor Dirge

All damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control by a source of your choice is dealt to another target creature instead.

Instant
Kor Dirge (tsr) 120
Nightcreep

Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps.

Instant
Nightcreep (dis) 49
Rend Flesh

Destroy target non-Spirit creature.

Instant
Rend Flesh (plst) CHK-140
Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Sacrifice (30a) 418
Simulacrum

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Simulacrum (30a) 422
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (scd) 108
Spoils of Blood

Create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.

Instant
Spoils of Blood (c14) 30
Spoils of Evil

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add {C} and you gain 1 life.

Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
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.

Instant
Sudden Death (tsr) 143
Sudden Edict

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 player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Instant
Sudden Edict (mh2) 100
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.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsr) 144
This Is How It Ends

Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library, then faces a villainous choice — They lose 5 life, or they shuffle another creature they own into their library.

Instant
This Is How It Ends (who) 373
Ultimate Price

Destroy target monocolored creature.

Instant
Ultimate Price (rvr) 95
Word of Command

Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. You control that player until Word of Command finishes resolving. The player plays that card if able. While doing so, the player can activate mana abilities only if they're from lands that player controls and only if mana they produce is spent to activate other mana abilities of lands the player controls and/or to play that card. If the chosen card is cast as a spell, you control the player while that spell is resolving.

Instant
Word of Command (cei) 137

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Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 325
Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Everglades

Everglades enters tapped. When Everglades enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{B}.

Land
Everglades (vis) 162
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When Glacial Chasm enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Halls of Mist

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Creatures that attacked during their controller's last turn can't attack.

Land
Halls of Mist (ice) 354
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}.

Land
Lake of the Dead (all) 140
Leechridden Swamp

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

Land
Leechridden Swamp (j22) 137
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {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.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Rhystic Cave

{T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color unless any player pays {1}. Activate only as an instant.

Land
Rhystic Cave (pcy) 142
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (sld) 384

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Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage deals 2 damage to them. −1: Target player discards a card.

Planeswalker
Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage (war) 83

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Ashen Powder

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Ashen Powder (mir) 104
Bite of the Black Rose

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Bite of the Black Rose (cns) 26
Bond of Agony

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

Sorcery
Bond of Agony (dis) 38
Call to the Void

Each player secretly chooses a creature they control and a creature they don't control. Then those choices are revealed. Destroy each creature chosen this way.

Sorcery
Call to the Void (clb) 118
Capital Punishment

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for death or taxes. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each death vote and discards a card for each taxes vote.

Sorcery
Capital Punishment (cn2) 40
Chain of Smog

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Sorcery
Chain of Smog (plst) ONS-132
Choice of Damnations

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents of their choice.

Sorcery
Choice of Damnations (sok) 62
Consume Spirit

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

Sorcery
Consume Spirit (plst) DDC-56
Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Corrupt (bro) 88
Deadly Tempest

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

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (scd) 75
Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Sorcery
Death Cloud (plst) DST-40
Dredge the Mire

Each opponent chooses a creature card in their graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Dredge the Mire (scd) 76
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
Final Punishment

Target player loses life equal to the damage already dealt to that player this turn.

Sorcery
Final Punishment (scg) 67
Forbidden Ritual

Sacrifice a nontoken permanent. If you do, target opponent loses 2 life unless that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice or discards a card. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Sorcery
Forbidden Ritual (vis) 60
Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Sorcery
Make an Example (ncc) 37
Reanimate

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

Sorcery
Reanimate (mkc) 137
Rhystic Tutor

Unless any player pays {2}, search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rhystic Tutor (pcy) 77
Skull Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Each opponent who can't loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Skull Storm (c18) 18
Soul Strings

Return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand unless any player pays {X}.

Sorcery
Soul Strings (pcy) 78
Sword-Point Diplomacy

Reveal the top three cards of your library. For each of those cards, put that card into your hand unless any opponent pays 3 life. Then exile the rest.

Sorcery
Sword-Point Diplomacy (xln) 126
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.

Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81
Tempt with Immortality

Tempting offer — Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each opponent may return a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. For each opponent who does, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Tempt with Immortality (c13) 95
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
Tyrant's Choice

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Sorcery
Tyrant's Choice (cns) 30

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