Banehound

Thirsting Shade

Lifelink
{2}{B}: Thirsting Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sanguine Bond

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

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Doom Blade

Hero's Downfall

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.)

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.)

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.

Bojuka Bog

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

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}.

Exsanguinate

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

Demon's Horn

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

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.
{3}, Sacrifice Fountain of Renewal: Draw a card.

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.

Pontiff of Blight

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.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying
Drain Life — When Shard of the Nightbringer enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}

Reaper's Talisman

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Rogue's Passage

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

Gollum, Obsessed Stalker

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Swamp

Feed the Swarm

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

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}.

March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Battle at the Bridge

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
−2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.
−8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Thrull Parasite

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.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

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.

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.)

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

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.

Profane Memento

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

Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}{B}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
{6}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Sol Ring

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Diamond Mare

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

Basilica Screecher

Flying
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.)

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.

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.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Blood Tithe

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Prism Ring

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

Tavern Swindler

{T}, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Gifted Aetherborn

Syphon Soul

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste
When Clackbridge Troll enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap Clackbridge Troll, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

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.

Whispersilk Cloak

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

Professor's Warning

Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Foreboding Fruit

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Veinwitch Coven

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

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.

Syndicate Enforcer

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.)

Gonti's Machinations

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get {E}. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay {E}{E}, Sacrifice Gonti's Machinations: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Subversion

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Cling to Dust

Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Cabal Stronghold

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

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.

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.

Exquisite Blood

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

Parasitic Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

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