Gurmag Swiftwing

Lifecreed Duo

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Courier Bat

Flying
When Courier Bat enters, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink
When Deep-Cavern Bat enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until Deep-Cavern Bat leaves the battlefield.

Starlit Soothsayer

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Starseer Mentor

Flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, target opponent loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.

Essence Channeler

As long as you've lost life this turn, Essence Channeler has flying and vigilance.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Essence Channeler.
When Essence Channeler dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
{3}{W}: Level 2
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}{W}: Level 3
When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Ghastly Gloomhunter

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Flying, lifelink
If Ghastly Gloomhunter was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Darkstar Augur

Offspring {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.)

Moonstone Eulogist

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, put a +1/+1 counter on Moonstone Eulogist and you gain 1 life.

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.

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.)

Hazel's Nocturne

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Starfall Invocation

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Destroy all creatures. If the gift was promised, return a creature card put into your graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Plains

Moonstone Harbinger

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever you gain or lose life during your turn, Bats you control get +1/+0 and gain deathtouch until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Moonrise Cleric

Flying
Whenever Moonrise Cleric attacks, you gain 1 life.

Grimclaw Bats

Flying
{B}, Pay 1 life: Grimclaw Bats gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Flying, lifelink
Whenever Aclazotz attacks, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
When Aclazotz dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Temple of the Dead

(Transforms from Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}: Transform Temple of the Dead. Activate only if a player has one or fewer cards in hand and only as a sorcery.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

Valley Questcaller

Whenever one or more other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and/or Mice you control enter, scry 1.
Other Rabbits, Bats, Birds, and Mice you control get +1/+1.

Malakir Familiar

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever you gain life, Malakir Familiar gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Regal Bloodlord

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Lunar Convocation

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Screeching Scorchbeast

Flying, menace
Whenever Screeching Scorchbeast attacks, each player gets two rad counters.
Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, you may create that many 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens. Do this only once each turn.

Blood Artist

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

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Ruin-Lurker Bat

Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, scry 1. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Mortify

Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Wax-Wane Witness

Flying, vigilance
Whenever you gain or lose life during your turn, Wax-Wane Witness gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Mirkwood Bats

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

Sanguine Bond

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

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Consumed by Greed

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Fell the Profane

Fell Mire

As Fell Mire enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire

Lupinflower Village

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Lupinflower Village: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a Bat, Bird, Mouse, or Rabbit card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Exsanguinate

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

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Mudflat Village

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Mudflat Village: Return target Bat, Lizard, Rat, or Squirrel card from your graveyard to your hand.

Commander's Sphere

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

Thought Vessel

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

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.)

Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
{1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Hidden Courtyard

Hidden Courtyard enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Courtyard: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Sorin of House Markov

Lifelink
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.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, exile Sorin of House Markov, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Sorin, Ravenous Neonate

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.)
+2: Create a Food token.
−1: Sorin, Ravenous Neonate deals damage equal to the amount of life you gained this turn to any target.
−6: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types. Put a lifelink counter on it if you control a white permanent other than that creature or Sorin.

Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate

Dawn's Truce

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Fellwar Stone

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

Reliquary Tower

Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When Bandit's Talent enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card.
{B}: Level 2
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life.
{3}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Sol Ring

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.)

Dewdrop Cure

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Return up to two target creature cards each with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If the gift was promised, instead return up to three target creature cards each with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

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.

Bojuka Bog

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

Pit of Offerings

Pit of Offerings enters tapped.
When Pit of Offerings enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Rogue's Passage

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

Arcane Signet

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

Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

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.)

Lightning Greaves

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

Hidden Necropolis

Hidden Necropolis enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Necropolis: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Patchwork Banner

As Patchwork Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Command Tower

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Brightclimb Pathway

Grimclimb Pathway

Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway

Exotic Orchard

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Swamp

Star Charter

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with power 3 or less from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Feed the Cycle

As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay {B}. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Thriving Heath

Thriving Heath enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white.
{T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a Bat you control attacks, you gain 1 life.
Whenever Zoraline enters or attacks, you may pay {W}{B} and 2 life. When you do, return target nonland permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

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