False Cure

Until end of turn, whenever a player gains life, that player loses 2 life for each 1 life they gained.

Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Nighthaze

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Draw a card.

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Mazemind Tome

{T}, Put a page counter on Mazemind Tome: Scry 1.
{2}, {T}, Put a page counter on Mazemind Tome: Draw a card.
When there are four or more page counters on Mazemind Tome, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

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.

Sunscorched Desert

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

Tomb of Urami

{T}: Add {B}. Tomb of Urami deals 1 damage to you if you don't control an Ogre.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice all lands you control: Create Urami, a legendary 5/5 black Demon Spirit creature token with flying.

Dark Tutelage

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

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.)

Swamp

Witch's Cottage

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

Dawn of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Postmortem Lunge

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Cruel Tutor

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

Death Wish

You may put a card you own from outside the game into your hand. You lose half your life, rounded up. Exile Death Wish.

Shriveling Rot

Choose one —
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.
Entwine {2}{B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Death's Shadow

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

Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Piranha Marsh

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

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.

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Forsaken Wastes

Players can't gain life.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life.
Whenever Forsaken Wastes becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Foreboding Fruit

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 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.

Unspeakable Symbol

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

Soul Channeling

Enchant creature
Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Rouse

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 2 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Liability

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into a player's graveyard from the battlefield, that player loses 1 life.

Lich's Tomb

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you lose life, sacrifice a permanent for each 1 life you lost. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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.

Mirror Universe

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

Onyx Goblet

Dash Hopes

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

Curse of Wizardry

As Curse of Wizardry enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, that player loses 1 life.

Golden Urn

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Golden Urn.
{T}, Sacrifice Golden Urn: You gain life equal to the number of charge counters on Golden Urn.

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

Demon's Horn

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

Ulcerate

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You lose 3 life.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Painful Lesson

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Treacherous Blessing

When Treacherous Blessing enters, draw three cards.
Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life.
When Treacherous Blessing becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Spoils of the Vault

Choose a card name. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with that name, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way, and you lose 1 life for each of the exiled cards.

Imperial Seal

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.

Phthisis

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.
Suspend 5—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with five 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.)

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.

Karn's Sylex

Karn's Sylex enters tapped.
Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
{X}, {T}, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.

Toxic Deluge

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Devour in Shadow

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Banewasp Affliction

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

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.

Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Fruit of Tizerus

Target player loses 2 life.
Escape—{3}{B}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Death of a Thousand Stings

Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may return Death of a Thousand Stings from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Prying Questions

Target opponent loses 3 life and puts a card from their hand on top of their library.

Essence Harvest

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

Rankle's Prank

Choose one or more —
• Each player discards two cards.
• Each player loses 4 life.
• Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Repay in Kind

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

Sword-Point Diplomacy

Reveal the top three cards of your library. For each of those cards, put that card into your hand unless any opponent pays 3 life. Then exile the rest.

Tainted Remedy

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

Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

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.)

Treacherous Urge

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Zof Consumption

Each opponent loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Zof Bloodbog

Zof Bloodbog enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog

Blood Pact

Razor Pendulum

At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player has 5 or less life, Razor Pendulum deals 2 damage to that player.

Withering Boon

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

Devour Flesh

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

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 tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Each other player loses X life.

Noxious Revival

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.

Mutagenic Growth

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Infernal Contract

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

Discerning Taste

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creature cards put into your graveyard this way.

Lurking Jackals

When an opponent has 10 or less life, if Lurking Jackals is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/2 Jackal creature.

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