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.

Geth's Verdict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 1 life.

Dogged Detective

When this creature enters, 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.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Elder Brain

Menace
Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Hoarder's Greed

You lose 2 life and draw two cards, then clash with an opponent. If you win, repeat this process. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Blood Price

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You lose 2 life.

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 this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Shadow Prophecy

Domain — Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Terisiare's Devastation

You lose X life and create X tapped Powerstone tokens. Then all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control. (The tokens are artifacts with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Malicious Advice

Tap X target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands. You lose X life.

Sanguimancy

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Orcish Bowmasters

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

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.

Maestros Charm

Choose one —
• Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
• Maestros Charm deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Intellect Devourer

Devour Intellect — When this creature enters, each opponent exiles a card from their hand until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Body Thief — You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this creature. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Crystal Rod

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

Necrogen Mists

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Demogorgon's Clutches

Target opponent discards two cards, mills two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Font of Agonies

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

Live Fast

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, and get {E}{E} (two energy counters).

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.)

Liliana of the Veil

+1: Each player discards a card.
−2: Target player sacrifices a creature.
−6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Tourach, Dread Cantor

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Protection from white
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach.
When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

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.

Rain of Daggers

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. You lose 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Monumental Corruption

Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of artifacts you control.

Chain of Smog

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

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.

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Pointed Discussion

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Bond of Agony

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

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Cabal Therapy

Choose a nonland card name. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that name.
Flashback—Sacrifice a creature. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Defaced Gallery

Whenever you attack, attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Painter's Studio

When you unlock this door, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them until the end of your next turn.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Painter's Studio // Defaced Gallery

Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When this Class enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card.
{B}: Level 2
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life.
{3}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Funeral Rites

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.

Nin, the Pain Artist

{X}{U}{R}, {T}: Nin deals X damage to target creature. That creature's controller draws X cards.

Cruel Ultimatum

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards three cards, then loses 5 life. You return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand, draw three cards, then gain 5 life.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Night's Whisper

Tablet of the Guilds

As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Minions' Murmurs

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Mindslicer

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

Ulcerate

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You lose 3 life.

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

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.)

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.

Lord Xander, the Collector

When Lord Xander enters, target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded down.
Whenever Lord Xander attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded down.
When Lord Xander dies, target opponent sacrifices half the nonland permanents they control of their choice, rounded down.

Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random.

Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

+2: Draw two cards.
−3: Nicol Bolas deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
−4: Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
−12: Exile all but the bottom card of target player's library.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Flying
When Nicol Bolas enters, each opponent discards a card.
{4}{U}{B}{R}: Exile Nicol Bolas, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen

Sign in Blood

Ambition's Cost

Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Temple of Aclazotz

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Arguel's Blood Fast

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz

Infectious Inquiry

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

Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Fiend of the Shadows

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles a card from their hand. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Sacrifice a Human: Regenerate this creature.

Cruel Tutor

Harrowing Journey

Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Bottomless Pit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Unmask

You may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Lazotep Convert

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Invasion of Amonkhet

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, each player mills three cards, then each opponent discards a card and you draw a card. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Disinformation Campaign

When this enchantment enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card.
Whenever you surveil, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Cunning Lethemancer

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

Bitter Revelation

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.

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Cruelclaw's Heist

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. If the gift was promised, you may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

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.

Cut of the Profits

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.
−3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."

Ensnared by the Mara

Each opponent faces a villainous choice — They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then you may cast that card without paying its mana cost, or that player exiles the top four cards of their library and Ensnared by the Mara deals damage equal to the total mana value of those exiled cards to that player.

Imperial Seal

Mind's Eye

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

Kolaghan's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target player discards a card.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Mental Agony

Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.

Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh

+2: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.
+1: Each opponent exiles two cards from their hand.
−4: Nicol Bolas deals 7 damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.
−12: Exile each nonland permanent your opponents control.

Blightning

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

Diamond Mare

As this creature enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Game of Chaos

Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip.

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.