Collective Brutality

Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Mind Bomb

Each player may discard up to three cards. Mind Bomb deals damage to each player equal to 3 minus the number of cards they discarded this way.

Ragged Veins

Flash
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, its controller loses that much life.

Falkenrath Noble

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

Vein Ripper

Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Hopeless Nightmare

When Hopeless Nightmare enters the battlefield, 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.

Visions of Brutality

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't block.
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, its controller loses that much life.

Sower of Discord

Flying
As Sower of Discord enters the battlefield, choose two players.
Whenever damage is dealt to one of the chosen players, the other chosen player also loses that much life.

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

Syphon Life

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Aurora of Emrakul

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Aurora of Emrakul attacks, each opponent loses 3 life.

Cryptolith Fragment

Cryptolith Fragment enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Each player loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if each player has 10 or less life, transform Cryptolith Fragment.

Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul

Curse of Wizardry

As Curse of Wizardry enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, that player loses 1 life.

Underworld Dreams

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

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Nightshade Harvester

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on Nightshade Harvester.

Sinister Possession

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

Sunscorched Desert

When Sunscorched Desert enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{T}: Add {C}.

Breathstealer's Crypt

If a player would draw a card, instead they draw a card and reveal it. If it's a creature card, that player discards it unless they pay 3 life.

Exsanguinate

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

Island

Undermine

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

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.

Mage Hunter

Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.

Thornbow Archer

Whenever Thornbow Archer attacks, each opponent who doesn't control an Elf loses 1 life.

Sorin Markov

+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.

Blood Clock

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand unless they pay 2 life.

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.

Dash Hopes

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

Hissing Miasma

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

Zur's Weirding

Players play with their hands revealed.
If a player would draw a card, they reveal it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card.

Soul Reap

Destroy target nongreen creature. Its controller loses 3 life if you've cast another black spell this turn.

Vicious Conquistador

Whenever Vicious Conquistador attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.

Blood Seeker

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

Sovereign's Bite

Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Soot Imp

Flying
Whenever a player casts a nonblack spell, that player loses 1 life.

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.

Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, Ankh of Mishra deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

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.

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.

Swamp

Festering Wound

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an infection counter on Festering Wound.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Festering Wound deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of infection counters on Festering Wound.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

The Rack

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Power Taint

Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Dreadhound

When Dreadhound enters the battlefield, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.

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.

Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Psychogenic Probe

Whenever a spell or ability causes a player to shuffle their library, Psychogenic Probe deals 2 damage to that player.

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.)

Tree of Perdition

Defender
{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with Tree of Perdition's toughness.

Piranha Marsh

Piranha Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.
When Piranha Marsh enters the battlefield, target player loses 1 life.
{T}: Add {B}.

Liability

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into a player's graveyard from the battlefield, that player loses 1 life.

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted deals 1 damage to that player.
−2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Mardu Shadowspear

Whenever Mardu Shadowspear attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.
Dash {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Blood Reckoning

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

Pulse Tracker

Whenever Pulse Tracker attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Shriveling Rot

Choose one —
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.
Entwine {2}{B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

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.

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Fate Unraveler deals 1 damage to that player.

Sleeper Agent

When Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield, target opponent gains control of it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, Sleeper Agent deals 2 damage to you.

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

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.

Parasitic Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Talion, the Kindly Lord

Flying
As Talion, the Kindly Lord enters the battlefield, choose a number between 1 and 10.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value, power, or toughness equal to the chosen number, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Rug of Smothering

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

Isolation Cell

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

Haunting Wind

Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, Haunting Wind deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.

Backfire

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to you, Backfire deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under enchanted player's control, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

Faerie Tauntings

Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, you may have each opponent lose 1 life.

Barbed Servitor

Indestructible
When Barbed Servitor enters the battlefield, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
Whenever Barbed Servitor deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Whenever Barbed Servitor is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

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.

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 Gonti's Machinations: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Painful Quandary

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

Essence Vortex

Destroy target creature unless its controller pays life equal to its toughness. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Vile Consumption

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

Leechridden Swamp

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