Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Blood Artist

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

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Grim Guardian

Constellation — Whenever Grim Guardian or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life.

Lampad of Death's Vigil

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Blightspeaker

{T}: Target player loses 1 life.
{4}, {T}: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Acolyte of Xathrid

Bontu the Glorified

Menace, indestructible
Bontu the Glorified can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Bile Urchin

Sacrifice Bile Urchin: Target player loses 1 life.

Nightshade Harvester

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on Nightshade Harvester.

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Mardu Shadowspear

Whenever Mardu Shadowspear attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.
Dash {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Cauldron Familiar

When Cauldron Familiar enters the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Sacrifice a Food: Return Cauldron Familiar from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature.

Cackling Imp

Thornbow Archer

Whenever Thornbow Archer attacks, each opponent who doesn't control an Elf loses 1 life.

Hostile Hostel

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a soul counter on Hostile Hostel. Then if there are three or more soul counters on it, remove those counters, transform it, then untap it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creeping Inn

Whenever Creeping Inn attacks, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of creature cards exiled with Creeping Inn.
{4}: Creeping Inn phases out.

Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn

Agent of Erebos

Constellation — Whenever Agent of Erebos or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, exile target player's graveyard.

Nirkana Revenant

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

Graveyard Trespasser

Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever Graveyard Trespasser enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)

Graveyard Glutton

Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever Graveyard Glutton enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to two target cards from graveyards. For each creature card exiled this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)

Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton

Wicked Visitor

Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you 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.

Skymarch Bloodletter

Flying
When Skymarch Bloodletter enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Tormented Hero

Tormented Hero enters the battlefield tapped.
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Tormented Hero, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.)

Wall of Limbs

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Wall of Limbs.
{5}{B}{B}, Sacrifice Wall of Limbs: Target player loses X life, where X is Wall of Limbs's power.

Faerie Bladecrafter

Flying
Whenever one or more Faeries you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on Faerie Bladecrafter.
When Faerie Bladecrafter dies, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Vengeful Strangler

Vengeful Strangler can't block.
When Vengeful Strangler dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control attached to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Strangling Grasp

Enchant creature or planeswalker an opponent controls
At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted permanent's controller sacrifices a nonland permanent, then that player loses 1 life.

Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp

Vampire Neonate

{2}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ashiok's Reaper

Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Cathedral of War

Cathedral of War enters the battlefield tapped.
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{T}: Add {C}.

Thoughtrender Lamia

Constellation — Whenever Thoughtrender Lamia or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent discards a card.

Leechridden Swamp

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

Debt to the Kami

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

Pharika's Libation

Choose one —
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Blasted Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Desert of the Glorified

Desert of the Glorified enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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}.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Bojuka Bog

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

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield 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.

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

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.

Piranha Marsh

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

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wander in Death

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sanguine Bond

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

Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one —
• Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Absorb Vis

Target player loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Basic landcycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Unholy Indenture

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Unhallowed Pact

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Taken by Nightmares

Exile target creature. If you control an enchantment, scry 2.

Read the Bones

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

Suffocating Fumes

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Succumb to Temptation

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Viper's Kiss

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Vessel of Malignity

{1}{B}, Sacrifice Vessel of Malignity: Target opponent exiles two cards from their hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Underworld Connections

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

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Behold the Beyond

Discard your hand. Search your library for three cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Withercrown

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power 0 and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless you sacrifice this creature."

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under enchanted player's control, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Torment of Scarabs

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card.

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

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 of your library.)
{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.

Stab Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Swamp

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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