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Death & Staxes
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Commander

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Kambal, Consul of Allocation

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

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (2x2) 237

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Creature

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Shroudstomper

Deathtouch Whenever Shroudstomper enters or attacks, each opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Creature
Shroudstomper (dsk) 233

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Discard

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Painful Quandary

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

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 111
Raiders' Wake

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life. Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, target opponent discards a card.

Enchantment
Raiders' Wake (plst) XLN-116
Rankle's Prank

Choose one or more — • Each player discards two cards. • Each player loses 4 life. • Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Rankle's Prank (woe) 102

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Drain

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Assault Intercessor

First strike, menace Chainsword — Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Assault Intercessor (40k) 104
Blood Seeker

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

Creature
Blood Seeker (m12) 81
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.)

Creature
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
Brotherhood Patriarch

When Brotherhood Patriarch dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Brotherhood Patriarch (acr) 286
Calculating Lich

Menace Whenever a creature attacks one of your opponents, that player loses 1 life.

Creature
Calculating Lich (clb) 742
Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (lcc) 267
Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Grievous Wound

Enchant player Enchanted player can't gain life. Whenever enchanted player is dealt damage, they lose half their life, rounded up.

Enchantment
Grievous Wound (dsk) 102
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.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (m21) 219
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.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (ima) 95
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Vein Ripper

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

Creature
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110
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.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j25) 71
Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Vraan, Executioner Thane (one) 114
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 (who) 223
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Drain

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Draw

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Altar's Reap

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

Instant
Altar's Reap (plst) DDR-37
Bad Deal

You draw two cards and each opponent discards two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Bad Deal (plst) M21-89
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Kaya, Intangible Slayer

Hexproof +2: Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. 0: You draw two cards. Then each opponent may scry 1. −3: Exile target creature or enchantment. If it wasn't an Aura, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 white Spirit creature with flying in addition to its other types.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Intangible Slayer (one) 205
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (j25) 99
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (otc) 146
Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Enchantment
Shadows of the Past (ddr) 60
Treacherous Greed

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature that dealt damage this turn. Draw three cards. Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Instant
Treacherous Greed (mkm) 237
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.)

Enchantment
Warlock Class (afr) 125
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.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (ltc) 291

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Evasion

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Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Delney, Streetwise Lookout (mkm) 12

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Land

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Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Monumental Henge

Monumental Henge enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Land
Monumental Henge (mh3) 222
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (blb) 370
Shambling Vent

Shambling Vent enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {1}{W}{B}: Shambling Vent becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Shambling Vent (clb) 914
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 374

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Lifegain

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Blood Tithe

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

Sorcery
Blood Tithe (m11) 84
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (mul) 132
Debt to the Deathless

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

Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (rvr) 176
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

Rather than pay {2} for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times. Flying, lifelink Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk (cmr) 286
Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Polluted Bonds (shm) 74
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
Sunscorch Regent

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Sunscorch Regent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sunscorch Regent (blc) 158

Lifegain

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Mill

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Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107

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Pingers

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Loyal Subordinate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Loyal Subordinate (cmm) 172
Vicious Conquistador

Whenever Vicious Conquistador attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Vicious Conquistador (xln) 128

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Protection

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Elesh Norn

Creature
Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings (pmom) 12sElesh Norn // The Argent Etchings (pmom) 12s
Norn's Annex

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Artifact
Norn's Annex (cmm) 829
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (cmm) 972

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Recursion

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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.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (mh3) 267

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (pip) 209
Argent Dais

Argent Dais enters with two oil counters on it. Whenever two or more creatures attack, put an oil counter on Argent Dais. {2}, {T}, Remove two oil counters from Argent Dais: Exile another target nonland permanent. Its controller draws two cards.

Artifact
Argent Dais (mh3) 20
Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 95
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (fdn) 575
Grasp of Fate

When Grasp of Fate enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until Grasp of Fate leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Enchantment
Grasp of Fate (wot) 3
Hour of Revelation

This spell costs {3} less to cast if there are ten or more nonland permanents on the battlefield. Destroy all nonland permanents.

Sorcery
Hour of Revelation (znc) 17
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (blc) 147
Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Sorcery
Promise of Loyalty (blc) 148
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
Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant
Utter End (dsc) 91
Witch Enchanter

Creature
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

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Sorcery

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Rite of the Moth

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.) Flashback {3}{W}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Rite of the Moth (dsk) 229

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Stax

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Blind Obedience

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.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 9
Isolation Cell

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

Artifact
Isolation Cell (nph) 141
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141

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Tokens

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Denethor, Ruling Steward

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. {2}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Denethor, Ruling Steward (ltr) 198

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Tutor

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Maralen of the Mornsong

Players can't draw cards. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player loses 3 life, searches their library for a card, puts it into their hand, then shuffles.

Creature
Maralen of the Mornsong (mor) 65

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Sideboard

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Archfiend of the Dross

Flying Archfiend of the Dross enters with four oil counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from Archfiend of the Dross. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Creature
Archfiend of the Dross (one) 82
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
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
Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (blc) 179
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 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.

Sorcery
Blood Tribute (c17) 100
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
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
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
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (j22) 411
Etched Familiar

When Etched Familiar dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature Artifact
Etched Familiar (mom) 101
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
Gruesome Fate

Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature you control.

Sorcery
Gruesome Fate (plst) RIX-75
Infectious Horror

Whenever Infectious Horror attacks, each opponent loses 2 life.

Creature
Infectious Horror (m19) 101
Kaya, Ghost Assassin

0: Exile Kaya, Ghost Assassin or up to one target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. You lose 2 life. −1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Ghost Assassin (plst) CN2-75
Liliana's Caress

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

Enchantment
Liliana's Caress (plst) M11-103
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (pip) 237
Restless Bloodseeker

Creature
Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler (vow) 128Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler (vow) 128
Tainted Remedy

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

Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (cmm) 359

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Tokens & Extras

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Plaguebearer of Nurgle

Creature Token
Plaguebearer of Nurgle (t40k) 15
Plaguebearer of Nurgle

Creature Token
Plaguebearer of Nurgle (t40k) 15

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