Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Arcane Signet

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

Ashnod's Altar

Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

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.

Dreg Recycler

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Denethor, Ruling Steward

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
{2}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Dogged Pursuit

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Drana's Emissary

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ghost Council of Orzhova

When Ghost Council of Orzhova enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Exile Ghost Council of Orzhova. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Lampad of Death's Vigil

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

Knights' Charge

Whenever a Knight you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{6}{W}{B}, Sacrifice Knights' Charge: Return all Knight creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Underhanded Designs

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice Underhanded Designs: Destroy target creature. Activate only if you control two or more artifacts.

Sanctum Seeker

Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Wispdrinker Vampire

Flying
Whenever another creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{5}{W}{B}: Creatures you control with power 2 or less gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Ondu Cleric

Whenever Ondu Cleric or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to the number of Allies you control.

Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Kalastria Healer

Rally — Whenever Kalastria Healer or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Wayward Servant

Whenever another Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Death Cultist

Sacrifice Death Cultist: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Debt to the Deathless

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

Defiant Bloodlord

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

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Falkenrath Noble

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

Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Indulging Patrician

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

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.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Acolyte of Aclazotz

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Agent of Masks

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Exsanguinate

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

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.

Commissar Severina Raine

Leading from the Front — Whenever Commissar Severina Raine attacks, each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.
Summary Execution — {2}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

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.

Subversion

Marauding Blight-Priest

Night Market Lookout

Whenever Night Market Lookout becomes tapped, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Sanctum of Stone Fangs

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Scholar of Athreos

{2}{B}: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Restless Bloodseeker

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Sacrifice two Blood tokens: Transform Restless Bloodseeker. Activate only as a sorcery.

Bloodsoaked Reveler

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler

Suture Priest

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Treasure Chest

{4}, Sacrifice Treasure Chest: Roll a d20.
1 | Trapped! — You lose 3 life.
2—9 | Create five Treasure tokens.
10—19 | You gain 3 life and draw three cards.
20 | Search your library for a card. If it's an artifact card, you may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle.

Underworld Coinsmith

Constellation — Whenever Underworld Coinsmith or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
{W}{B}, Pay 1 life: Each opponent loses 1 life.

Vampire Neonate

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

Vermin Gorger

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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.

Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
{1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Curse of the Restless Dead

Enchant player
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under enchanted player's control, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn.
{8}, {T}, Sacrifice Idol of Oblivion: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Infernal Tribute

{2}, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.

Rogue's Passage

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

Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Chain Devil

Animate Chains — When Chain Devil enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature.

Dire Fleet Hoarder

When Dire Fleet Hoarder dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.

Lantern of Revealing

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Ruthless Technomancer

When Ruthless Technomancer enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

Myr Turbine

{T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.
{T}, Tap five untapped Myr you control: Search your library for a Myr creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Agent of the Iron Throne

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever an artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."

Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Shard of the Void Dragon

Flying
Spear of the Void Dragon — Whenever Shard of the Void Dragon attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent.
Matter Absorption — Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Shard of the Void Dragon.

Woe Strider

When Woe Strider enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Woe Strider escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Xathrid Necromancer

Whenever Xathrid Necromancer or another Human creature you control dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Zhentarim Bandit

Whenever Zhentarim Bandit attacks, you may pay 1 life. If you do, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Gixian Infiltrator

Whenever you sacrifice another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Gixian Infiltrator.

Gleaming Barrier

Defender
When Gleaming Barrier dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Goldvein Pick

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Bag of Devouring

Whenever you sacrifice another nontoken artifact or creature, exile it.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Bag of Devouring: Roll a d10. Return up to X cards from among cards exiled with Bag of Devouring to their owners' hands, where X is the result.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block.
Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Corrupted Conviction

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

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

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.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Dockside Chef

{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.

Dogged Detective

When Dogged Detective enters the battlefield, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return Dogged Detective from your graveyard to your hand.

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Entomb

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

Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
{T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token.
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
{3}{B}: Untap Fain, the Broker.

Ghoulcaller Gisa

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Gisa's Favorite Shovel

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has menace.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature. If they do, you create a Walker token. (It's a 2/2 black Zombie creature.)
Equip {4}

Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Grim Tutor

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

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Jet Medallion

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

Killing Wave

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

Liliana's Triumph

Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

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