Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast this spell unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Swamp

Bloodsoaked Insight

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Sanguine Morass

Sanguine Morass enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass

Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Conduit of Ruin

When you cast this spell, you may search your library for a colorless creature card with mana value 7 or greater, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.

Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

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.

Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Cryptolith Fragment

Cryptolith Fragment enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Each player loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if each player has 10 or less life, transform Cryptolith Fragment.

Aurora of Emrakul

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Aurora of Emrakul attacks, each opponent loses 3 life.

Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul

Dread Cacodemon

When Dread Cacodemon enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all creatures your opponents control, then tap all other creatures you control.

Elbrus, the Binding Blade

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
When equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, unattach Elbrus, the Binding Blade, then transform it.
Equip {1}

Withengar Unbound

Flying, intimidate, trample (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a player loses the game, put thirteen +1/+1 counters on Withengar Unbound.

Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound

End the Festivities

End the Festivities deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.

Flame Rift

Flame Rift deals 4 damage to each player.

Florian, Voldaren Scion

First strike
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the total amount of life your opponents lost this turn. Exile one of those cards and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Ghostfire Slice

Devoid (This card has no color.)
This spell costs {2} less to cast if an opponent controls a multicolored permanent.
Ghostfire Slice deals 4 damage to any target.

Grab the Prize

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Havoc Festival

Players can't gain life.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

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.

Ill-Gotten Inheritance

At the beginning of your upkeep, Ill-Gotten Inheritance deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
{5}{B}, Sacrifice Ill-Gotten Inheritance: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

Jagged Barrens

Jagged Barrens enters tapped.
When Jagged Barrens enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur, Doomscourge enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Knollspine Dragon

Flying
When Knollspine Dragon enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
Leechridden Swamp enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Lobber Crew

Defender
{T}: Lobber Crew deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, untap Lobber Crew.

Molten Gatekeeper

Whenever another creature you control enters, Molten Gatekeeper deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Unearth {R} ({R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Nettle Drone

Devoid (This card has no color.)
{T}: Nettle Drone deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, untap Nettle Drone.

Night's Whisper

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Orcus, Prince of Undeath

Flying, trample
When Orcus, Prince of Undeath enters, choose one —
• Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life.
• Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Pathrazer of Ulamog

Annihilator 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices three permanents.)
Pathrazer of Ulamog can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Piranha Marsh

Piranha Marsh enters tapped.
When Piranha Marsh enters, target player loses 1 life.
{T}: Add {B}.

Protection Racket

At the beginning of your upkeep, repeat the following process for each opponent in turn order. Reveal the top card of your library. That player may pay life equal to that card's mana value. If they do, exile that card. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Command Tower

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

Plague Spitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
When Plague Spitter dies, it deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Rakdos Joins Up

When Rakdos Joins Up enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever a legendary creature you control dies, Rakdos Joins Up deals damage equal to that creature's power to target opponent.

Rakdos Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B}{R}: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

Rakdos Signet

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

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.)

Reliquary Tower

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

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.

Sanctum of Ugin

{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may sacrifice Sanctum of Ugin. If you do, search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Sol Ring

Spawn of Mayhem

Spectacle {1}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, Spawn of Mayhem deals 1 damage to each player. Then if you have 10 or less life, put a +1/+1 counter on Spawn of Mayhem.

Spinerock Knoll

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Spinerock Knoll enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Stormfist Crusader

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Sunscorched Desert

When Sunscorched Desert enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{T}: Add {C}.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

The Lord of Pain

Menace
Your opponents can't gain life.
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Thermo-Alchemist

Defender
{T}: Thermo-Alchemist deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Thermo-Alchemist.

Ulamog's Crusher

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents.)
Ulamog's Crusher attacks each combat if able.

Unlicensed Disintegration

Destroy target creature. If you control an artifact, Unlicensed Disintegration deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.

Unruly Catapult

Defender
{T}: Unruly Catapult deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Unruly Catapult.

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls and draw a card.

Thought Vessel

Rakdos Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}, {T}, Sacrifice Rakdos Locket: Draw two cards.

Rakdos, Patron of Chaos

Flying, trample
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent may sacrifice two nonland, nontoken permanents. If they don't, you draw two cards.

Raphael, Fiendish Savior

Flying
Other Demons, Devils, Imps, and Tieflings you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature card was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste.
Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Sandstone Oracle

Flying
When Sandstone Oracle enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.

Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on Séance Board.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on Séance Board. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Rakdos, the Showstopper

Flying, trample
When Rakdos, the Showstopper enters, flip a coin for each creature that isn't a Demon, Devil, or Imp. Destroy each creature whose coin comes up tails.

Sower of Discord

Flying
As Sower of Discord enters, choose two players.
Whenever damage is dealt to one of the chosen players, the other chosen player also loses that much life.

Mountain

Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

Arcane Signet

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Bane of Bala Ged

Whenever Bane of Bala Ged attacks, defending player exiles two permanents they control.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

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.

Burning-Rune Demon

Flying
When Burning-Rune Demon enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

City on Fire

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.)
If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.

Court of Ire

When Court of Ire enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, Court of Ire deals 2 damage to any target. If you're the monarch, it deals 7 damage instead.

Dark Ritual

Demonic Covenant

Whenever one or more Demons you control attack a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying, then mill two cards. If two cards that share all their card types were milled this way, sacrifice Demonic Covenant.

Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on Descent into Avernus. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and Descent into Avernus deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on Descent into Avernus.

Desolation Twin

When you cast this spell, create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Hammer of Purphoros

Creatures you control have haste.
{2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Create a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token.

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, Impact Tremors deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Infernal Sovereign

Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Meteor Golem

When Meteor Golem enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

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