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.

Chalice of Life

{T}: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

Chalice of Death

Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death

Vampiric Rites

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

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn 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.

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.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Consuming Aetherborn

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Lifelink

Exsanguinate

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

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.

Thought Vessel

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

Arrogant Outlaw

When Arrogant Outlaw enters, if an opponent lost life this turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Acolyte of Aclazotz

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

Skymarch Bloodletter

Flying
When Skymarch Bloodletter enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Kalastria Healer

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

Scion of the Swarm

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Scion of the Swarm.

No One Left Behind

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature card with mana value 3 or less.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sanguine Indulgence

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Bloodborn Scoundrels

Assist (Another player can pay up to {5} of this spell's cost.)
When Bloodborn Scoundrels enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Vampire Envoy

Flying
Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, 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.

Bishop of the Bloodstained

When Bishop of the Bloodstained enters, target opponent loses 1 life for each Vampire you control.

Tenured Inkcaster

When Tenured Inkcaster enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Dredging Claw

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever a creature enters from your graveyard, you may attach Dredging Claw to it.
Equip {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Blood on the Snow

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Snow-Covered Swamp

Graveyard Shovel

{2}, {T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard. If it's a creature card, you gain 2 life.

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Dig Up the Body

Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Unmake the Graves

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Twisted Embrace

Enchant artifact or creature you control
When Twisted Embrace enters, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+1.

Gift of Fangs

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's a Vampire. Otherwise, it gets -2/-2.

Dogged Pursuit

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sol Ring

Jet Medallion

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

Vindictive Vampire

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

Sorin, Vampire Lord

+1: Up to one target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
−2: Sorin, Vampire Lord deals 4 damage to any target. You gain 4 life.
−8: Until end of turn, each Vampire you control gains "{T}: Gain control of target creature."

Charcoal Diamond

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

Balustrade Spy

Flying
When Balustrade Spy enters, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Vampire Spawn

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

March of the Returned

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Murder

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Disentomb

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Umezawa's Charm

Choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.

Raise the Draugr

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Bloodline Culling

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
• Creature tokens get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Soul Enervation

Flash
When Soul Enervation enters, target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Basilica Stalker

Flying
Whenever Basilica Stalker deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life and surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Disguise {4}{B} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

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.

Go for the Throat

Absorb Vis

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Basic landcycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Life of Toshiro Umezawa

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Memory of Toshiro

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro

Tidy Conclusion

Destroy target creature. You gain 1 life for each artifact you control.

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Pristine Talisman

Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Exile Campfire: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Quag Vampires

Multikicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Quag Vampires enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each time it was kicked.

Stromkirk Bloodthief

At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target Vampire you control.

Hierophant's Chalice

When Hierophant's Chalice enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Drift of the Dead

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Drift of the Dead's power and toughness are each equal to the number of snow lands you control.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Mark of the Vampire

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.

Price of Knowledge

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Price of Knowledge deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Nocturnal Feeder

Flying
When Nocturnal Feeder dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Vein Ripper

Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 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.)

Blood Burglar

During your turn, Blood Burglar has lifelink.(Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Vermin Gorger

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Sanguine Bond

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

Vampire Cutthroat

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

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.

Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you 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.

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.

Blood Artist

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

Cruel Reality

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If the player can't, they lose 5 life.

Creeping Bloodsucker

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

Gifted Aetherborn

Vampire Nighthawk

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Cordial Vampire

Whenever Cordial Vampire or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Consuming Vapors

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Profane Memento

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

Gravepurge

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card.

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.

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