Whispersilk Cloak

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

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.

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.)

Viridescent Bog

Feed the Swarm

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

Fyndhorn Elves

Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Blood Artist

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

Essence Pulse

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

Command Tower

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

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
As Overgrown Tomb enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Riveteers Overlook

When Riveteers Overlook enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Reliquary Tower

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

Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Radiant Fountain

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

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Windgrace's Judgment

For any number of opponents, destroy target nonland permanent that player controls.

Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Harmonize

Paradise Plume

As Paradise Plume enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

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.)

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Trudge Garden

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.

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.

Tablet of the Guilds

As Tablet of the Guilds 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.

Lifegift

Whenever a land enters, you may gain 1 life.

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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

Dark Ritual

Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, 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.)

Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.

Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

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.)

Pristine Talisman

Veinwitch Coven

Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Toxic Deluge

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

Trespasser's Curse

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

Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Elvish Mystic

Llanowar Elves

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Sol Ring

Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Profane Memento

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

Reanimate

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

Mortality Spear

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

Deathrite Shaman

{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color.
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

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.

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.

Deadly Brew

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

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."

Haywire Mite

When Haywire Mite dies, you gain 2 life.
{G}, Sacrifice Haywire Mite: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.)

Victimize

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

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.

Curtains' Call

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.)
Destroy two target creatures.

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.

Culling Ritual

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

Protean Hulk

When Protean Hulk dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Swamp

Forest

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Weather the Storm

You gain 3 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Night's Whisper

Golgari Signet

Exsanguinate

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

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

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.

Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
{2}{G}: Level 2
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
{4}{G}: Level 3
When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Thought Vessel

Breathe Your Last

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Sun Droplet

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on Sun Droplet.
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from Sun Droplet. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Mosswood Dreadknight

Trample
When Mosswood Dreadknight dies, you may cast it from your graveyard as an Adventure until the end of your next turn.

Dread Whispers

You draw a card and you lose 1 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers

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.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sanctum of Stone Fangs

At the beginning of your first main phase, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Lifedrain

Lifegain

Draw

Combo

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