Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

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.

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Diregraf Scavenger

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Diregraf Scavenger enters, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Glidedive Duo

Flying
When Glidedive Duo enters, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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.)

Nadier's Nightblade

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

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.)

Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, Vindictive Vampire deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Bleak Coven Vampires

Metalcraft — When Bleak Coven Vampires enters, if you control three or more artifacts, target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Kalastria Healer

Rally — Whenever Kalastria Healer or another Ally you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Acolyte of Aclazotz

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Vengeful Bloodwitch

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Queen's Bay Paladin

Whenever Queen's Bay Paladin enters or attacks, return up to one target Vampire card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. You lose life equal to its mana value. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Carrion Locust

Flying
When Carrion Locust enters, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, that player loses 1 life.

Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Indulgent Tormentor

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Abyssal Harvester

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Arbiter of Woe

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life. You draw a card and gain 2 life.

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.

Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

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.

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.

Parasitic Grasp

Cleave {1}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Parasitic Grasp deals 3 damage to target [Human] creature. You gain 3 life.

Extinguish the Light

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. If its mana value was 3 or less, you gain 3 life.

Death's Caress

Destroy target creature. If that creature was a Human, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Monumental Corruption

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

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Lich's Caress

Destroy target creature. You gain 3 life.

Essence Extraction

Essence Extraction deals 3 damage to target creature and you gain 3 life.

Winter's Intervention

Winter's Intervention deals 2 damage to target creature. You gain 2 life.

Moment of Craving

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Undercity's Embrace

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you gain 4 life.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Imperial Seal

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

Skyclave Shade

Kicker {2}{B}
Skyclave Shade can't block.
If Skyclave Shade was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if Skyclave Shade is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Accursed Marauder

When Accursed Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Kami of Jealous Thirst

Deathtouch
{4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability costs {4}{B} less to activate if you've drawn three or more cards this turn. Activate only once each turn.

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.

Nine-Lives Familiar

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it.
When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch
Whenever Unstoppable Slasher deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When Unstoppable Slasher dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

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.)

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Lightning Greaves

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

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Sol Ring

Dark Ritual

Vampiric Tutor

Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Fell

Olivia's Wrath

Each non-Vampire creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Vampires you control.

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Exsanguinate

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

Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Mirkwood Bats

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

Season of Loss

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
{P} — Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
{P}{P} — Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.
{P}{P}{P} — Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

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}.

Zhentarim Bandit

Whenever Zhentarim Bandit attacks, you may pay 1 life. If you do, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Phyrexian Arena

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

Rogue's Passage

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

Night's Whisper

Reliquary Tower

Swamp

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Demonic Pact

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• This enchantment deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Draw two cards.
• You lose the game.

Exquisite Blood

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

Underworld Dreams

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

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

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.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.
{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

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.)

Gray Merchant of Alphabet

When Gray Merchant of Alphabet enters, choose a letter. For each creature you control that has the chosen letter in its name, you gain 1 life and each opponent loses 1 life.

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.)

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Burakos, Party Leader

Burakos, Party Leader is also a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.
Whenever Burakos attacks, defending player loses X life and you create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of creatures in your party.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

The Meep

Ward—Pay 3 life.
Whenever The Meep attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

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