Unknown Shores

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

Rowan, Scion of War

Menace
{T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Swamp

Dark Confidant

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.

Tavern Swindler

{T}, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.

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.

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.

Virtue of Persistence

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Locthwain Scorn

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

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.

Wall of Blood

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

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Heartless Hidetsugu

{T}: Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.

Orcus, Prince of Undeath

Flying, trample
When Orcus, Prince of Undeath enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life.
• Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, choose one —
• That spell gains deathtouch and lifelink.
• Create a 2/2 red Imp creature token with "When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent."

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.

Blood Celebrant

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

Defiler of Instinct

First strike
As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, Defiler of Instinct deals 1 damage to any target.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Greed

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.)

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

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.)

Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Exquisite Blood

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

Virtue of Courage

Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, you may exile that many cards from the top of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Embereth Blaze

Embereth Blaze deals 2 damage to any target. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)

Virtue of Courage // Embereth Blaze

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Dark Tutelage

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.

Exsanguinate

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

Doomsday Confluence

Choose X. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Each player sacrifices a nonartifact creature.
• Create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace.
• Each opponent discards a card.

Killing Wave

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

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

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.

Diabolic Revelation

Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.

Apex of Power

Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them.
If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color.

Gamble

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

Night's Whisper

Dark Ritual

Repay in Kind

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

Swallowing Plague

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Ribbons

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Each opponent loses X life.

Cut // Ribbons

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Fall of the Titans

Surge {X}{R} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Fall of the Titans deals X damage to each of up to two targets.

Mountain

Bitter Triumph

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

Electrodominance

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Mind Stone

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

Rakdos Signet

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.

Hanweir Battlements

{T}: Add {C}.
{R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
{3}{R}{R}, {T}: If you both own and control Hanweir Battlements and a creature named Hanweir Garrison, exile them, then meld them into Hanweir, the Writhing Township.

Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Arcane Signet

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

Mithril Coat

Flash
Indestructible
When Mithril Coat enters the battlefield, attach it to target legendary creature you control.
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {3}

Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Malice enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Lightning Greaves

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

Thought Vessel

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

Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
{T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
{T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
{5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Emergence Zone: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Sol Ring

Sanguine Bond

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

Bloodfell Caves

Bloodfell Caves enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bloodfell Caves enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Urborg Volcano

Urborg Volcano enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Myr Convert

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Reliquary Tower

Command Tower

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Cascading Cataracts

Indestructible
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Add five mana in any combination of colors.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}.
{B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Shadowblood Ridge

Cinder Barrens

Cinder Barrens enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Crystal Grotto

When Crystal Grotto enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Shimmering Grotto

Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Rakdos Guildgate

Rakdos Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Sower of Discord

Flying
As Sower of Discord enters the battlefield, choose two players.
Whenever damage is dealt to one of the chosen players, the other chosen player also loses that much life.

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