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Commander

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Jerren, Corrupted Bishop
Whenever Jerren enters or another nontoken Human you control dies, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
: Target Human you control gains lifelink until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life, you may pay
. If you do, transform Jerren.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter (mid) 316Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter (mid) 316

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card draw / advantage

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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 (acr) 161
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
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 (2xm) 81
Keen Duelist
At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Keen Duelist (c21) 42
Liliana's Contract
When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.
Enchantment
Liliana's Contract (m19) 107
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (plst) EMA-100
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 (plst) DDP-56
Savanti Romero, Time's Exile
Trample
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Savanti Romero. Then you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of counters on Savanti Romero.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Demon
Savanti Romero, Time's Exile (tmt) 72
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (cm2) 77
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (40k) 248
Species Specialist
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.
Creature - Human Warrior
Species Specialist (c20) 47
The Speed Demon
Flying, trample
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.
Legendary Creature - Demon
The Speed Demon (dft) 339
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
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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dont lose

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Pact Weapon
As long as this Equipment 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.
Artifact - Equipment
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
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 —
, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.
Legendary Artifact
The Golden Throne (40k) 157

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exchange life

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Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125

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Humans

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Desperate Farmer
Lifelink
When another creature you control dies, transform this creature.
Creature - Human Peasant
Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester (inr) 105Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester (inr) 105
Infernal Vessel
When this creature dies, if it wasn't a Demon, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with two +1/+1 counters on it. It's a Demon in addition to its other types.
Creature - Human Cleric
Infernal Vessel (fdn) 63
Skirsdag High Priest
Morbid —
, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only if a creature died this turn.
Creature - Human Cleric
Skirsdag High Priest (2xm) 106
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
Valgavoth's Faithful
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Human Cleric
Valgavoth's Faithful (dsk) 121
Xathrid Necromancer
Whenever this creature or another Human creature you control dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Human Wizard
Xathrid Necromancer (c20) 141

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (mic) 167
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 (eld) 241
Demolition Field
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (ncc) 422
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
: Add
.
,
: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Legendary Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (chk) 283
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mid) 273
Thespian's Stage
: Add
.
,
: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.
Land
Thespian's Stage (who) 323
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (cmr) 361
Westvale Abbey
: Add
.
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
,
, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.
Land
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (sld) 1159Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (sld) 1159

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life gain

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Deathgreeter
Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Shaman
Deathgreeter (gvl) 33
Gonti's Machinations
Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get
. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Enchantment
Gonti's Machinations (aer) 63
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
Profane Memento
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Profane Memento (m15) 226
Vampiric Link
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Enchantment - Aura
Vampiric Link (plc) 92
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 (ths) 110

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Mana

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (40k) 228
Black Market
Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add
for each charge counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Black Market (sld) 1577★
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 442
Heraldic Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 346
Magus of the Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Coffers (c14) 148
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
Sceptre of Eternal Glory
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.
Legendary Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
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 (40k) 262

Mana

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pay life to 13

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Madame Null, Power Broker
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay life equal to its power. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Creature - Demon Advisor
Madame Null, Power Broker (tmt) 66
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 (3ed) 122

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Protection

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Armor of Shadows
Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Armor of Shadows (clb) 112
Darkness
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
Gift of Doom
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has deathtouch and indestructible.
Morph—Sacrifice another creature. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
As this Aura is turned face up, you may attach it to a creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Gift of Doom (c19) 17
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 (otp) 15
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
Professor's Warning
Choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Professor's Warning (stx) 84
Simulacrum
You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.
Instant
Simulacrum (4ed) 161
Sudden Spoiling
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.
Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsp) 135

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Removal

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Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (h1r) 13
Demon's Disciple
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
Creature - Human Cleric
Demon's Disciple (cmm) 149
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 (mar) 16
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Make an Example
Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)
Sorcery
Make an Example (ncc) 37
Massacre Girl
Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Massacre Girl (war) 99
Plaguecrafter
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Creature - Human Shaman
Plaguecrafter (afc) 107
Shredder's Technique
Sneak
(You may cast this spell for
if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.)
Destroy target creature or enchantment. If an enchantment was destroyed this way, you lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Shredder's Technique (tmt) 232
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 (cmm) 191
Tragic Slip
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
Instant
Tragic Slip (plst) C14-167
V.A.T.S.
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Choose any number of target creatures with equal toughness. Destroy the chosen creatures.
Instant
V.A.T.S. (pip) 50
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Voltron

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
Elbrus, the Binding Blade
Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
When equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, unattach Elbrus, then transform it.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound (dka) 147Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound (dka) 147
Lashwrithe
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Artifact - Equipment
Lashwrithe (c14) 245

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Sideboard

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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
Arcane Lighthouse
: Add
.
,
: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.
Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Ardyn, the Usurper
Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste.
Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.
Legendary Creature - Human Elder Noble
Ardyn, the Usurper (fin) 89
Bad Moon
Black creatures get +1/+1.
Enchantment
Bad Moon (c14) 135
Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment enters, 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.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (iko) 73
Big Game Hunter
When this creature enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.
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 - Human Assassin Rebel
Big Game Hunter (tsr) 102
Blade of the Oni
Menace
Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5, has menace, and is a black Demon in addition to its other colors and types.
Reconfigure
(
: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
Creature Artifact - Equipment Demon
Blade of the Oni (neo) 453
Blood Pact
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
Blood Tithe
Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Blood Tithe (m11) 84
Bloodgift Demon
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
Creature - Demon
Bloodgift Demon (c14) 137
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 (war) 79
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 (akh) 225
Boon of Erebos
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Boon of Erebos (ths) 80
Brainspoil
Destroy target creature that isn't enchanted. It can't be regenerated.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Sorcery
Brainspoil (rav) 78
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 442
Commune with Evil
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain 3 life.
Sorcery
Commune with Evil (dsk) 87
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 (dvd) 55
Crushing Disappointment
Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.
Instant
Crushing Disappointment (stx) 68
Crux of Fate
Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.
Sorcery
Crux of Fate (c17) 107
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 (c14) 139
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (itp) 19
Deadly Dispute
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Deadly Dispute (afr) 94
Demon's Disciple
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
Creature - Human Cleric
Demon's Disciple (znr) 97
Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Demonic Embrace
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.
You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.
Enchantment - Aura
Demonic Embrace (m21) 95
Desert of the Glorified
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Desert
Desert of the Glorified (hou) 171
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (cma) 54
Ecstatic Awakener
, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card, then transform this creature. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Human Wizard
Ecstatic Awakener // Awoken Demon (mid) 100Ecstatic Awakener // Awoken Demon (mid) 100
Emergence Zone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
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) 93
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
Everglades
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Everglades (c14) 294
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
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
Fountain of Renewal
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Fountain of Renewal (plst) M19-235
Ghost Lantern
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit (clb) 128
Ghost Quarter
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
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 (c14) 146
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Gruesome Deformity
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Enchantment - Aura
Gruesome Deformity (isd) 103
Harvester of Souls
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature - Demon
Harvester of Souls (e01) 34
Hedron Archive
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Hedron Archive (jmp) 468
Heirloom Mirror
,
, Pay 1 life, Discard a card: Draw a card, mill a card, then put a ritual counter on this artifact. Then if it has three or more ritual counters on it, remove them and transform it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend (mid) 105Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend (mid) 105
In Garruk's Wake
Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.
Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (znc) 45
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
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
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
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
Killing Wave
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Sorcery
Killing Wave (avr) 111
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 267
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
Malicious Affliction
Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy.
Destroy target nonblack creature.
Instant
Malicious Affliction (ema) 96
Marshland Bloodcaster
Flying
,
: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Marshland Bloodcaster (c21) 43
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (znc) 114
Minions' Murmurs
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Sorcery
Minions' Murmurs (tsr) 124
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
Necrologia
Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.
Instant
Necrologia (exo) 68
Necromantic Selection
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (znc) 48
Netherborn Altar
, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Netherborn Altar (c20) 45
Netherborn Phalanx
When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Horror
Netherborn Phalanx (gk1) 6
Nevinyrral's Disk
This artifact enters tapped.
,
: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.
Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (cmr) 328
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.)
Artifact - Equipment
Nightmare Lash (mrd) 219
Nightmare's Thirst
You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Instant
Nightmare's Thirst (m19) 111
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 (bbd) 150
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
Oblivion's Hunger
Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. Draw a card if that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)
Instant
Oblivion's Hunger (znr) 119
Oubliette
When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)
Enchantment
Oubliette (plst) 2XM-100
Pact of the Serpent
Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Pact of the Serpent (khc) 9
Paradise Plume
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Paradise Plume (tsp) 260
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.
Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
Pestilence Demon
Flying
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Creature - Demon
Pestilence Demon (ddr) 56
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (9ed) 152
Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
Polluted Mire
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Polluted Mire (cma) 265
Prism Ring
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Prism Ring (ori) 235
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
Razaketh's Rite
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Razaketh's Rite (hou) 74
Reckoner's Bargain
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.
Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120
Relic Vial
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.
As long as you control a Cleric, this artifact has "Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."
Artifact
Relic Vial (znr) 250
Resurrection Orb
Equipped creature has lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Resurrection Orb (40k) 165
Shadowgrange Archfiend
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way.
Madness—
, Pay 8 life. (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 - Demon
Shadowgrange Archfiend (voc) 22
Shrouded Lore
Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay
. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.
Sorcery
Shrouded Lore (plst) PLC-91
Sisay's Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 251
Sorin Markov
+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
Sorin Markov (plst) ZEN-111
Soul Conduit
,
: Two target players exchange life totals.
Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
Staff of the Death Magus
Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Staff of the Death Magus (m15) 232
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.
Instant
Stunning Reversal (bbd) 51
Succumb to Temptation
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Instant
Succumb to Temptation (emn) 107
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 (voc) 169
Tainted Strike
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Instant
Tainted Strike (som) 80
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 (plst) C14-166
Thought Vessel
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346
Thran Dynamo
: Add
.
Artifact
Thran Dynamo (plst) IMA-230
Trading Post
,
, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
,
, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Trading Post (plst) CM2-225
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 (plst) AKH-112
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.
Enchantment
Triskaidekaphobia (a25) 110
Unlikely Aid
Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Unlikely Aid (war) 109
Unspeakable Symbol
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (scg) 79
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
Deathtouch
Boast —
: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
Legendary Creature - Demon Rogue
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 309
Vendetta
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Instant
Vendetta (roe) 130
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (sta) 35
Vorpal Sword
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124
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 (mrd) 82
Well of Lost Dreams
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.
Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c21) 275
Whisper, Blood Liturgist
, Sacrifice two creatures: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Whisper, Blood Liturgist (dom) 111
Without Weakness
Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it still dies.)
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Without Weakness (hou) 81
Worn Powerstone
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Worn Powerstone (c18) 230

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Commander creatures you own have menace and "This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Criminal Past (clb) 122
Haunted One
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Haunted One (clb) 624
Scion of Halaster
Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Scion of Halaster (clb) 145

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Basilica Screecher
Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Creature - Bat
Basilica Screecher (gtc) 58
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 (gk2) 33
Thrull Parasite
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.
Creature - Thrull
Thrull Parasite (gtc) 81

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Arco-Flagellant
Squad
(As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay
any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.)
This creature can't block.
Endurant — Pay 3 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Human
Arco-Flagellant (40k) 29
Audacious Thief
Whenever this creature attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue
Audacious Thief (m20) 84
Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Bloodsoaked Champion
This creature can't block.
Raid —
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if you attacked this turn.
Creature - Human Warrior
Bloodsoaked Champion (clb) 740
Bonecaller Cleric
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Human Cleric
Bonecaller Cleric (clb) 117
Bushmeat Poacher
,
, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.
Creature - Human Soldier
Bushmeat Poacher (iko) 77
Cairn Wanderer
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
As long as a creature card with flying is in a graveyard, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud, and vigilance.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Cairn Wanderer (c20) 130
Cuombajj Witches
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to any target of an opponent's choice.
Creature - Human Wizard
Cuombajj Witches (cmr) 646
Demon's Disciple
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
Creature - Human Cleric
Demon's Disciple (znr) 97
Desperate Farmer
Lifelink
When another creature you control dies, transform this creature.
Creature - Human Peasant
Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester (vow) 104Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester (vow) 104
Disciple of Bolas
When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Creature - Human Wizard
Disciple of Bolas (2xm) 85
Disciple of Perdition
When this creature dies, choose one. If you have exactly 13 life, you may choose both instead.
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target opponent's graveyard. That player loses 1 life.
Creature - Human Warlock
Disciple of Perdition (j22) 23
Dockside Chef
, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.
Creature Enchantment - Human Citizen
Dockside Chef (neo) 93
Dogged Detective
When this creature enters, 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 this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Rogue
Dogged Detective (ncc) 35
Doomed Necromancer
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Human Cleric Mercenary
Doomed Necromancer (afc) 98
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (mm2) 82
Fain, the Broker
, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
: Untap Fain.
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Fain, the Broker (c21) 40
Flesh Carver
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
When this creature dies, create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Human Wizard
Flesh Carver (c14) 22
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
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 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.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
Grim Haruspex
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Grim Haruspex (c19) 118
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Keen Duelist
At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Keen Duelist (c21) 42
Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor
, Sacrifice three other artifacts and/or creatures: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer Phyrexian
Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor (cmr) 131
Liliana, Heretical Healer
Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (ori) 106Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (ori) 106
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
Nekrataal
First strike
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.
Creature - Human Assassin
Nekrataal (ema) 99
Novice Occultist
When this creature dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Human Wizard
Novice Occultist (mid) 117
Ophiomancer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Creature - Human Shaman
Ophiomancer (j22) 452
Order of Midnight
Flying
This creature can't block.
Creature - Human Knight
Order of Midnight // Alter Fate (eld) 99
Orzhov Enforcer
Deathtouch
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)
Creature - Human Rogue
Orzhov Enforcer (rna) 79
Phyrexian Vivisector
Whenever a creature you control dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Human Phyrexian
Phyrexian Vivisector (dmu) 100
Pit Keeper
When this creature enters, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Pit Keeper (tsr) 130
Pitiless Plunderer
Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Pirate
Pitiless Plunderer (rix) 81
Plaguecrafter
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Creature - Human Shaman
Plaguecrafter (afc) 107
Priest of Forgotten Gods
, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add
and draw a card.
Creature - Human Cleric
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rna) 83
Ruthless Technomancer
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.
Creature - Human Wizard
Ruthless Technomancer (nec) 35
Sedgemoor Witch
Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Creature - Human Warlock
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
Shadow-Rite Priest
Other Clerics you control get +1/+1.
,
, Sacrifice another Cleric: Search your library for a black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Cleric
Shadow-Rite Priest (dmu) 106
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
,
, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric Elf
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 392
Tavern Swindler
, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.
Creature - Human Rogue
Tavern Swindler (m21) 124
Tempting Witch
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
,
, Sacrifice a Food: Target player loses 3 life.
Creature - Human Warlock
Tempting Witch (jmp) 283
Tenacious Underdog
Blitz—
, Pay 2 life. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)
You may cast this card from your graveyard using its blitz ability.
Creature - Human Warrior
Tenacious Underdog (snc) 97
Thorn of the Black Rose
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Creature - Human Assassin
Thorn of the Black Rose (cmr) 154
Undercity Scrounger
: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if a creature died this turn. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature Artifact - Human Rogue
Undercity Scrounger (neo) 126
Vengeful Strangler
This creature can't block.
When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control attached to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
Creature - Human Rogue
Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp (mid) 126Vengeful Strangler // Strangling Grasp (mid) 126
Whisper, Blood Liturgist
, Sacrifice two creatures: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Whisper, Blood Liturgist (dom) 111
Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (plst) JMP-18
Wreck Hunter
Flash
When this creature enters, choose target player. You create a tapped Powerstone token for each nonland card in that player's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. (It's an artifact with "
: Add
. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")
Creature - Human Artificer
Wreck Hunter (brc) 11
Xathrid Necromancer
Whenever this creature or another Human creature you control dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Human Wizard
Xathrid Necromancer (c20) 141
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (tsr) 337

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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) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
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 (slc) 1995
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 505
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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Ambition's Cost
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (c21) 134
Ancient Craving
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ancient Craving (c21) 135
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 (c21) 137
Carrion Howler
Pay 1 life: This creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn.
Creature - Zombie Wolf
Carrion Howler (rav) 79
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (c21) 139
Dystopia
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a green or white permanent of their choice.
Enchantment
Dystopia (wc97) js47sb
Foul Familiar
This creature can't block.
, Pay 1 life: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Spirit
Foul Familiar (dkm) 5
Garza's Assassin
Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)
Creature - Human Assassin
Garza's Assassin (csp) 57
Kuro, Pitlord
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro unless you pay
.
Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit
Kuro, Pitlord (dvd) 44
Murderous Betrayal
, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Enchantment
Murderous Betrayal (8ed) 147
Plague of Vermin
Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.
Sorcery
Plague of Vermin (shm) 73
Souldrinker
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Spirit
Souldrinker (dvd) 39
Underworld Connections
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "
, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Underworld Connections (c17) 128

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Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 637
Haunting Voyage
Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (khm) 98
Unearth
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Unearth (mh1) 113
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (ncc) 261

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Beseech the Queen
(
can be paid with any two mana or with
. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (plst) 2XM-255
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 (m12) 106

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Alhammarret's Archive
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.
Legendary Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
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 (xln) 90Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90
Book of Rass
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Artifact - Book
Book of Rass (chr) 95
Commander's Plate
Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander

Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Commander's Plate (plst) CMR-305
Crypt Incursion
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.
Instant
Crypt Incursion (dgm) 23
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (md1) 25
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 (grn) 69
Dreadhorde Invasion
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.
Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (mic) 114
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) 93
Mischievous Poltergeist
Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Spirit
Mischievous Poltergeist (6ed) 144
No Mercy
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
Enchantment
No Mercy (ulg) 56
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
−2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.
−8: You get an emblem with "
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.
Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath (c14) 27
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 (brr) 102
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Plunge into Darkness
Choose one —
• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
• Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Instant
Plunge into Darkness (5dn) 57
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (roe) 125
Revenge of Ravens
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
Soul Channeling
Enchant creature
Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Soul Channeling (mmq) 163
Spoils of Evil
For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add
and you gain 1 life.
Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
Sword of the Animist
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Sword of the Animist (afc) 218
Tomb Fortress
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Exile this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Tomb Fortress (40k) 168
Tree of Perdition
Defender
: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Perdition (emn) 109
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) 339
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Wasteland Raider
Squad
(As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay
any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.)
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Human Mercenary
Wasteland Raider (pip) 52

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Eye of Vecna
When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
Legendary Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 243
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
The Book of Vile Darkness
At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91

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