Oath of the Grey Host

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You and target opponent each create a Food token.
II — Each opponent loses 3 life. Create a Treasure token.
III — Create three tapped 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Offer Immortality

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Doom Blade

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.)

Neurok Hoversail

Equipped creature has flying.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin

Flying
Whenever Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature with the least power among creatures they control.

Gollum's Bite

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{B}, Exile Gollum's Bite from your graveyard: The Ring tempts you. Activate only as a sorcery.

One Ring to Rule Them All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.

Lembas

When Lembas enters, scry 1, then draw a card.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Lembas: You gain 3 life.
When Lembas is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its owner shuffles it into their library.

Polygraph Orb

When Polygraph Orb enters, look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Collect evidence 3: Each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card or sacrifice a creature. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)

Fellwar Stone

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

Miara, Thorn of the Glade

Whenever Miara, Thorn of the Glade or another Elf you control dies, you may pay {1} and 1 life. If you do, draw a card.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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.)

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Exsanguinate

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

Isildur's Fateful Strike

(You may cast a legendary instant only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Destroy target creature. If its controller has more than four cards in hand, they exile cards from their hand equal to the difference.

Consuming Sepulcher

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

Tithing Blade

When Tithing Blade enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature.
Craft with creature {4}{B} ({4}{B}, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher

Don't Have

Consume Spirit

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

Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Exile Campfire: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Stone of Erech

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Absorb Vis

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Basic landcycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Cling to Dust

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.)

Blood Artist

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

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Flash
Menace
When Lobelia Sackville-Baggins enters, exile target creature card from an opponent's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, then create X Treasure tokens, where X is the exiled card's power.

Voracious Fell Beast

Flying
When Voracious Fell Beast enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature. Create a Food token for each creature sacrificed this way. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Shadow of the Enemy

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.

Soul Shatter

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

Desperate Bloodseeker

Lifelink
When Desperate Bloodseeker enters, target player mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Chalice of Death

Chalice of Life

{T}: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death

Troll of Khazad-dûm

Troll of Khazad-dûm can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Pristine Talisman

The Witch's Vanity

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target creature an opponent controls with mana value 2 or less.
II — Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
III — Create a Wicked Role token attached to target creature you control.

Murder

Sol Ring

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Brush with Death

Buyback {2}{B}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Target opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life.

Dogged Pursuit

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

Archetype of Finality

Creatures you control have deathtouch.
Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Raven of Fell Omens

Flying
Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

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.)

Ringwraiths

When Ringwraiths enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. If that creature is legendary, its controller loses 3 life.
When the Ring tempts you, return Ringwraiths from your graveyard to your hand.

Stab Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

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.

Gollum, Obsessed Stalker

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Lash of the Balrog

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

Aeronaut's Wings

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Fell Beast of Mordor

Flying
Devour 1 (As this enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
Whenever Fell Beast of Mordor enters or attacks, target opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Vorpal Sword

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

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When Orcish Bowmasters enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Infectious Inquiry

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Mirkwood Bats

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

Braidwood Cup

Withercrown

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power 0 and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless you sacrifice this creature."

Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card.

Merciless Executioner

When Merciless Executioner enters, each player sacrifices a creature.

Angelheart Vial

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.
{2}, {T}, Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Corrupted Conviction

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

Cauldron Familiar

When Cauldron Familiar enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Sacrifice a Food: Return Cauldron Familiar from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Discerning Taste

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creature cards put into your graveyard this way.

Ill-Gotten Inheritance

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.

Animus of Night's Reach

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever Animus of Night's Reach attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in defending player's graveyard.

The Long Reach of Night

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Each opponent sacrifices a creature unless they discard a card.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

The Long Reach of Night // Animus of Night's Reach

Demonic Bargain

Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Rooftop Assassin

Flash
Flying, lifelink
When Rooftop Assassin enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Morgul-Knife Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -3/-0 and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, exile this creature unless you pay 2 life."

Rapacious Guest

Menace
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Food token.
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, put a +1/+1 counter on Rapacious Guest.
When Rapacious Guest leaves the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to its power.

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.

Swamp

Shelob, Dread Weaver

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it.
{2}{B}, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob, Dread Weaver into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card.
{X}{1}{B}: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

Hopeless Nightmare

When Hopeless Nightmare enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
When Hopeless Nightmare is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2.
{2}{B}: Sacrifice Hopeless Nightmare.

Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

When Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant enters, 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.)
Creature tokens you control have deathtouch.

Scream Puff

Deathtouch
Whenever Scream Puff deals combat damage to a player, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile target player's graveyard.
When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}{B}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
{6}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Fake Your Own Death

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.")

Cirith Ungol Patrol

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card, then create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Mordor Muster

You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
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.)

Staff of the Death Magus

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

Summon Undead

You may mill three cards. Then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

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.

Dark Ritual

Blood Tithe

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

Bushmeat Poacher

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

Sanguine Bond

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

Night's Whisper

Shelob's Ambush

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Poison the Cup

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.)

Tragic Fall

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Hellbent — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if you have no cards in hand.

Taken by Nightmares

Exile target creature. If you control an enchantment, scry 2.

Swiftfoot Boots

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

Rogue's Passage

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

Arcane Signet

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

Alms of the Vein

Target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
Madness {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.)

Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Feed the Swarm

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

Gollum, Scheming Guide

Whenever Gollum, Scheming Guide attacks, look at the top two cards of your library, put them back in any order, then choose land or nonland. An opponent guesses whether the top card of your library is the chosen kind. Reveal that card. If they guessed right, remove Gollum from combat. Otherwise, you draw a card and Gollum can't be blocked this turn.

Agonizing Syphon

Agonizing Syphon deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.