Morbid Opportunist

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

Scorn-Blade Berserker

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.)
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Star Compass

Star Compass enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

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.

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your 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.

Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

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}.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Midnight Reaper deals 1 damage to you and you 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.

Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

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.)

Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

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.

Demon's Horn

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

Sol Ring

Rogue's Passage

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

Zhalfirin Void

When Zhalfirin Void enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {C}.

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

Coldsteel Heart

Coldsteel Heart enters tapped.
As Coldsteel Heart enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Pristine Talisman

Traveler's Amulet

{1}, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, 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.)

Lightning Greaves

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

Greed

Jet Medallion

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

Deadly Tempest

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

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Recover

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Draw a card.

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Mind Stone

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

Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

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."

Unnatural Endurance

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

Rush of Vitality

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")

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.)

Magus of the Abyss

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of their choice. It can't be regenerated.

Sorin's Vengeance

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 10 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.

Fated Return

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.
{B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards.
{B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Audacious Thief

Whenever Audacious Thief attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Blood Pet

Consuming Vapors

Target player sacrifices a creature. 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.)

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis, the Fallen.

Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Magus of the Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Mutilate

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

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Exquisite Blood

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

Bushmeat Poacher

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever Archon of Cruelty enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Callous Bloodmage

When Callous Bloodmage enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.

Mogis's Marauder

When Mogis's Marauder enters, up to X target creatures each gain intimidate and haste until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it. Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Blood Scrivener

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Swamp

Prism Ring

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

Staff of the Death Magus

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

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.

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.)

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.

Clattering Augur

Clattering Augur can't block.
When Clattering Augur enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
{2}{B}{B}: Return Clattering Augur from your graveyard to your hand.

Cabal Coffers

Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Nightmare Shepherd

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Indulgent Tormentor

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Defile

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

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Zenith Chronicler

Whenever a player casts their first multicolored spell each turn, each other player draws a card.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

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