Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.
{B}, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Blossoming Bogbeast

Whenever Blossoming Bogbeast attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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.

Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

Cabal Coffers

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

Command Tower

Ashnod's Altar

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Blex, Vexing Pest

Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex, Vexing Pest dies, you gain 4 life.

Search for Blex

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.

Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex

Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

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.

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.

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.)

Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Deadly Brew

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dig Up

Cleave {1}{B}{B}{G} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Search your library for a [basic land] card, [reveal it,] put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina, Soul Steeper gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Exquisite Blood

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

Exsanguinate

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

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Gala Greeters

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on Gala Greeters.
• Create a tapped Treasure token.
• You gain 2 life.

Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped.
When Golgari Rot Farm enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

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.)

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Honor Troll

Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
Honor Troll gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Infuse with Vitality

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

Jaheira, Friend of the Forest

Tokens you control have "{T}: Add {G}."
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Kodama's Reach

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 Mire

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

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Phyrexian Tower

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

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.

Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sanguine Bond

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

Sapseep Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)
Sapseep Forest enters tapped.
{G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Sedgemoor Witch

Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Lightning Greaves

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

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Reliquary Tower

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

Sol Ring

Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Haunted Mire enters tapped.

Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters tapped.
When Jungle Hollow enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Nemata, Primeval Warden

Reach
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{G}, Sacrifice a Saproling: Nemata, Primeval Warden gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice two Saprolings: Draw a card.

Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.

Tear Asunder

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

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.

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

Toxic Deluge

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

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

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.)

Village Rites

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

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Temple of Malady

Temple of Malady enters tapped.
When Temple of Malady enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Lisette, Dean of the Root

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root

Witherbloom Campus

Witherbloom Campus enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Zulaport Cutthroat

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

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.

Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Vraska, Golgari Queen

+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Beledros Witherbloom

Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

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