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.

Unspeakable Symbol

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Swamp

Grim Tutor

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

Greed

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.

Thran Dynamo

Commander's Sphere

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

Khalni Gem

When Khalni Gem enters, return two lands you control to their owner's hand.
{T}: Add two mana of any one color.

Lotus Bloom

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
{T}, Sacrifice Lotus Bloom: Add three mana of any one color.

Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Pain's Reward

Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {3}

Empyrial Plate

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.
Equip {2}

Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Cabal Coffers

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

Nightmare Lash

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip—Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Dusk Mangler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life.
When Dusk Mangler enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

Platinum Angel

Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Shadow of Mortality

If your life total is less than your starting life total, this spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the difference.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Sol Ring

Mind Stone

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

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.

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.

Skirge Familiar

Thought Vessel

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

Scourge of the Skyclaves

Kicker {4}{B}
When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up.
Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players.

Minion of the Wastes

Trample
As Minion of the Wastes enters, pay any amount of life.
Minion of the Wastes's power and toughness are each equal to the life paid as it entered.

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Deepwood Ghoul

Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Magus of the Mirror

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

Death's Shadow

Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.

Mischievous Poltergeist

Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate Mischievous Poltergeist.

Blood Celebrant

{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.

Tree of Perdition

Defender
{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with Tree of Perdition's toughness.

Kagemaro, First to Suffer

Kagemaro, First to Suffer's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
{B}, Sacrifice Kagemaro: All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Feast of Sanity

Whenever you discard a card, Feast of Sanity deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Bubbling Muck

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

Essence Harvest

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

Spellbook

Arcane Signet

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

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Infernal Contract

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Demonic Pact

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• This enchantment deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Draw two cards.
• You lose the game.

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

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

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.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Temple of the False God

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

Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first 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.)

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.

Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Glacial Chasm enters, sacrifice a land.
Creatures you control can't attack.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Soul Conduit

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

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.)

Lich's Mastery

Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

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.

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Not of This World

Counter target spell or ability that targets a permanent you control.
This spell costs {7} less to cast if it targets a spell or ability that targets a creature you control with power 7 or greater.

Eternity Vessel

Eternity Vessel enters with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on Eternity Vessel.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Stunning Reversal

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1.
Exile Stunning Reversal.

Hagra Mauling

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.

Hagra Broodpit

Hagra Broodpit enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Night's Whisper

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: Wall of Blood gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.)

Reliquary Tower

The Golden Throne

Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1.
A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.
Counter target spell.

Gilded Lotus

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.

Dark Ritual

Repay in Kind

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

Exsanguinate

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

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Phyrexian Processor

As Phyrexian Processor enters, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered.

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.)

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

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