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Commander

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Vilis, Broker of Blood
Flying
, 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.)
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vilis, Broker of Blood (m20) 122

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Artifact

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Mana Vault
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add
.
Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
The Soul Stone
Indestructible
: Add
.
,
, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone
The Soul Stone (spm) 66

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Drain

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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

Drain

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Draw

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Darkstar Augur
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
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.
Creature - Bat Warlock
Darkstar Augur (blb) 90
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.
Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Unholy Annex
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. If you control a Demon, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Otherwise, you lose 2 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (dsk) 118

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Land

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Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Deserted Temple
: Add
.
,
: Untap target land.
Land
Deserted Temple (ody) 320
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Hagra Mauling
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Ifnir Deadlands
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Ifnir Deadlands (hou) 179
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (mkc) 276
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (xln) 268
Tarnished Citadel
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.
Land
Tarnished Citadel (mb2) 112
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (soc) 416
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (mkc) 310
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Life Loss

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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 is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
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.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Mischievous Poltergeist
Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Spirit
Mischievous Poltergeist (6ed) 144
Wall of Blood
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Blood (plst) MRD-82

Life Loss

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Lifegain

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Dread Presence
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Nightmare
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Ivory Tower
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.
Artifact
Ivory Tower (4ed) 328
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.
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Sangromancer (scd) 103
Twilight Prophet
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Twilight Prophet (rix) 88

Lifegain

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Protection

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Kaya's Ghostform
Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment - Aura
Kaya's Ghostform (war) 94
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."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Not Dead After All
Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Supernatural Stamina
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmr) 151
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258

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Ramp

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Bubbling Muck
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
Burnished Hart
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Elk
Burnished Hart (plst) C15-248
Crypt Ghast
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional
.
Creature - Spirit
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Decanter of Endless Water
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
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.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (c19) 18
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Myr Convert
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Myr Phyrexian
Myr Convert (one) 297
Nyx Lotus
Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Legendary Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245
Thran Dynamo
: Add
.
Artifact
Thran Dynamo (c19) 225
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317

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Reanimate

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Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (cc2) 5

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Removal

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Ashes to Ashes
Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.
Sorcery
Ashes to Ashes (drk) 39
Bitter Triumph
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Black Sun's Zenith
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (c14) 136
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (otc) 134
Font of Agonies
Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.
Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Mutilate
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Sorcery
Mutilate (gvl) 55
Pestilence
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Enchantment
Pestilence (plst) USG-147
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cc2) 6
Vendetta
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Instant
Vendetta (roe) 130
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124
Words of Waste
: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each opponent discards a card instead.
Enchantment
Words of Waste (ons) 182

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Tutor

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Demonic Counsel
Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92
Insatiable Avarice
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+
— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.
Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
Rune-Scarred Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Demon
Rune-Scarred Demon (cmm) 184
The Creation of Avacyn
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle.
II — Turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, you lose life equal to its mana value.
III — You may put the exiled card onto the battlefield if it's a creature card. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into its owner's hand.
Enchantment - Saga
The Creation of Avacyn (mh3) 86
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (cmr) 156

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Win Cons

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Enduring Tenacity
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
Faith of the Devoted
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (akh) 90
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 355
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.
Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
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.
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Psychosis Crawler (mkc) 234
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Sickening Dreams
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.
Sorcery
Sickening Dreams (tor) 83
Skirge Familiar
Flying
Discard a card: Add
.
Creature - Imp Phyrexian
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276

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Sideboard

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Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274

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Considered

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Aetherflux Reservoir
Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.
Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (klr) 217
Agadeem's Awakening
Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 336Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 336
Alloy Myr
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Alloy Myr (plst) MM2-201
Ambition's Cost
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (c20) 129
Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Arguel's Blood Fast
, 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.
Legendary Enchantment
Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (pxln) 90sArguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (pxln) 90s
Asylum Visitor
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Asylum Visitor (c19) 103
Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (mul) 13
Bad Deal
You draw two cards and each opponent discards two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Bad Deal (m21) 89
Blood Pact
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
Bloodgift Demon
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
Creature - Demon
Bloodgift Demon (scd) 69
Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Cabal Ritual
Add
.
Threshold — Add
instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Instant
Cabal Ritual (vma) 106
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.
Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 355
Candy Grapple
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. If this spell was bargained, that creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn instead.
Instant
Candy Grapple (woe) 83
Carnival of Souls
Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add
.
Enchantment
Carnival of Souls (uds) 55
Chainer, Dementia Master
All Nightmares get +1/+1.
, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.
Legendary Creature - Human Minion
Chainer, Dementia Master (cmm) 144
Claim the Precious
Destroy target creature. The Ring tempts you.
Sorcery
Claim the Precious (ltr) 81
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.
Sorcery
Corrupt (bro) 88
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
Dark Dabbling
Regenerate target creature. Draw a card. (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.
Instant
Dark Dabbling (ori) 89
Deadly Derision
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Deadly Derision (mom) 99
Decree of Pain
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Decree of Pain (cmm) 148
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Demonic Lore
When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 2 life for each card in your hand.
Enchantment
Demonic Lore (cmr) 118
Devour in Shadow
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Instant
Devour in Shadow (5dn) 46
Dross Harvester
Protection from white
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.
Creature - Horror
Dross Harvester (mrd) 63
Epic Downfall
Exile target creature with mana value 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Epic Downfall (eld) 85
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (thb) 262
Erebos, God of the Dead
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
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.
Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
Evincar's Justice
Buyback
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.
Sorcery
Evincar's Justice (plst) CMA-58
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmm) 657
Finale of Eternity
Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Finale of Eternity (pwar) 91p
Flay Essence
Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the number of counters on it.
Sorcery
Flay Essence (mh2) 85
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 "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sorcery
Foreboding Fruit (eld) 88
Forever Young
Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
Forsworn Paladin
Menace
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token.
: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If mana from a Treasure was spent to activate this ability, that creature also gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Human Knight
Forsworn Paladin (afr) 104
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
Hand of Vecna
At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Hand of Vecna (afr) 246
Helm of Awakening
Spells cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Helm of Awakening (dmr) 448
Horizon Stone
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.
Artifact
Horizon Stone (cmr) 315
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
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.
Creature - Demon
Infernal Sovereign (moc) 75
Knight of the Ebon Legion
: This creature gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Knight of the Ebon Legion (m20) 105
Leaden Myr
: Add
.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Leaden Myr (som) 170
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.
Legendary Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (c20) 245
Lithoform Blight
Enchant land
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land loses all land types and abilities and has "
: Add
" and "
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color."
Enchantment - Aura
Lithoform Blight (znr) 109
Lorcan, Warlock Collector
Flying
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may pay life equal to its mana value. If you do, put it onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Warlock in addition to its other types.
If a Warlock you control would die, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Devil
Lorcan, Warlock Collector (afc) 27
Mana Crypt
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you.
: Add
.
Artifact
Mana Crypt (plst) EMA-225
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
Mask of Griselbrand
Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111
Moonlight Bargain
Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.
Instant
Moonlight Bargain (c18) 114
Murderous Rider
Lifelink
When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Murderous Rider // Swift End (eld) 97
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Nighthawk Scavenger
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Nighthawk Scavenger (otc) 144
Nirkana Revenant
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional
.
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Vampire Shade
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134
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.
Sorcery
Pain's Reward (sok) 85
Painful Lesson
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Painful Lesson (plst) AKH-102
Pestilence Demon
Flying
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Creature - Demon
Pestilence Demon (ddr) 56
Phyrexian Processor
As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life.
,
: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.
Artifact
Phyrexian Processor (dde) 29
Pontiff of Blight
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)
Creature - Cleric Zombie
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
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.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (cmm) 182
Reiver Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Creature - Demon
Reiver Demon (cma) 64
Return to Action
Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121
Rug of Smothering
Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Rug of Smothering (clb) 336
Sanguimancy
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Sorcery
Sanguimancy (bng) 81
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, Whispering One (jmp) 278
Sisay's Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340
Soldevi Adnate
, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of
equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60a
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (mkc) 238
Songs of the Damned
Add
for each creature card in your graveyard.
Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
Soul Conduit
,
: Two target players exchange life totals.
Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
Soul Shatter
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Instant
Soul Shatter (scd) 108
Sword of War and Peace
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Sword of War and Peace (plst) 2XM-300
Tavern Swindler
, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.
Creature - Human Rogue
Tavern Swindler (snc) 96
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.
Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (m10) 114
Tivash, Gloom Summoner
Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (c21) 45
Trespasser's Curse
Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Trespasser's Curse (akh) 112
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.
Artifact - Book
Venser's Journal (c21) 273
Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink.
,
: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (cp2) 5
Worn Powerstone
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298
Wretched Anurid
Whenever another creature enters, you lose 1 life.
Creature - Beast Zombie Frog
Wretched Anurid (dmr) 109

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Blasphemous Edict
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Blood Money
Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.
Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Bloodtracker
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Bloodtracker (c18) 14
Cabal Pit
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cabal Pit (ody) 315
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (cmr) 303
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.
Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
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.
Creature - Human Wizard
Dark Confidant (j25) 114
Defiler of Flesh
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
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.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Fake Your Own Death
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Fake Your Own Death (otj) 87
Gixian Puppeteer
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Warlock Phyrexian
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Liliana of the Dark Realms
+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '
: Add
.'"
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Liliana of the Dark Realms (blc) 78
Magus of the Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Coffers (c14) 148
Magus of the Mirror
, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Mirror (cns) 117
Meathook Massacre II
When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Legendary Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 108
Ob Nixilis Reignited
+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."
Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis
Ob Nixilis Reignited (c19) 124
Palladium Myr
: Add
.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Palladium Myr (cmm) 967
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Reckless Spite
Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.
Instant
Reckless Spite (woc) 117
Rowan's Grim Search
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Instant
Rowan's Grim Search (woe) 104
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
Slaughter
Buyback—Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Slaughter (exo) 74
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (gvl) 53
Starving Revenant
When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Spirit Horror
Starving Revenant (plci) 123s
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.
Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
Temporal Extortion
When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81
Terrain Generator
: Add
.
,
: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Land
Terrain Generator (clb) 926
Treacherous Blessing
When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life.
When this enchantment becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.
Enchantment
Treacherous Blessing (thb) 117
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j22) 487
Withering Boon
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.
Instant
Withering Boon (mir) 152

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