Exsanguinate

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

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Debt to the Kami

Choose one —
• Target opponent exiles a creature they control.
• Target opponent exiles an enchantment they control.

Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.)
Equip {2}

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.

Jet Medallion

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

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much 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.

Whispersilk Cloak

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

Cut Down

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Greed

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

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.

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

The Cruelty of Gix

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Call to the Netherworld

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature {3}
Equip {7}

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

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.

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

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.

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.

Sanguine Bond

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

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.)

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, 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.)

Dark Ritual

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Feed the Swarm

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

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.

Read the Bones

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

Diabolic Tutor

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

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

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.

Pact Weapon

As long as Pact Weapon is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.

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.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Vampire Nighthawk

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Pristine Talisman

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Rogue's Passage

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

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Lightning Greaves

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

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

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.

Oblivion's Hunger

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. Draw a card if that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Cursed Flesh

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Murder

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.

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.

Demon's Horn

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

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.)

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.

Repay in Kind

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

Shade's Form

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Essence Harvest

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

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.

Reliquary Tower

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

Shard of the Nightbringer

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

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Defile

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

Go for the Throat

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip {3}

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.

Arguel's Blood Fast

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

Temple of Aclazotz

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz

Chain of Smog

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

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.)

Unlikely Aid

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

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.)

Bleed Dry

Target creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Swamp

Disciple of Bolas

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

Mind Stone

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

Necrotic Ooze

As long as Necrotic Ooze is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

Skirge Familiar

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Bojuka Bog

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

Blood Pet

Prism Ring

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

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Eliminate

Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Flay Essence

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the number of counters on it.

Memorial to Folly

Memorial to Folly enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Memorial to Folly: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Poison the Cup

Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2.
Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Doom Blade

Veinwitch Coven

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

Battle-Rage Blessing

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

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.)

Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Vampire Scrivener

Flying
Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.
Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

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