Painful Quandary

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

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

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.

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

Black Market

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

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Taste of Death

Each player sacrifices three creatures. You create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, 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.)

Soot Imp

Flying
Whenever a player casts a nonblack spell, that player loses 1 life.

Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Exsanguinate

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

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, Creeping Bloodsucker deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

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.

Sanguine Bond

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

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.)

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.

Demon's Horn

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

Basilica Screecher

Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 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.

Dark Ritual

Grim Servant

Menace
When Grim Servant enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Swamp

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 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.

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.

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Village Rites

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

Hazel's Nocturne

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Corrupted Conviction

Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Jet Medallion

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

Sol Ring

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.

Bitter Triumph

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

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Magus of the Coffers

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

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Read the Bones

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

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji, the Midnight Sky dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Imp's Mischief

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

Infernal Sovereign

Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Prism Ring

As Prism Ring enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Night's Whisper

Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Winter Moon

Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.

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.

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Gonti's Machinations

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get {E}. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay {E}{E}, Sacrifice Gonti's Machinations: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To 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.)

Blood Tithe

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Necrodominance

Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Archfiend of the Dross

Flying
Archfiend of the Dross enters with four oil counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from Archfiend of the Dross. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Thrull Parasite

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Bojuka Bog

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

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Exquisite Blood

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Evolving Wilds

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

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