Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

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.)

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.

Underworld Connections

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

Barbed Servitor

Indestructible
When Barbed Servitor enters, 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.

Exsanguinate

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

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

Incarnation Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.)
Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Toxic Deluge

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

Dross Harvester

Protection from white
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature {1}
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Demonic Embrace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.
You may cast Demonic Embrace from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Crypt Ghast

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.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Feed the Swarm

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

Phyrexian Delver

When Phyrexian Delver enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

Thieves' Tools

When Thieves' Tools enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Equipped creature can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Bismuth Mindrender

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Menace
Whenever Bismuth Mindrender deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast that card by paying life equal to the spell's mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Sol Ring

Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Night's Whisper

Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Expedition Map

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

Witch-king of Angmar

Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Repay in Kind

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

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

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.

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.

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Reiver Demon

Flying
When Reiver Demon enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Dark Ritual

Infernal Sovereign

Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Vilis, Broker of Blood

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

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Chainer, Dementia Master

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

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Reanimate

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

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Pain's Reward

Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.