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Commander

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Sol'kanar the Swamp King
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Sol'kanar the Swamp King (dmr) 200
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Burn

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Plague Drone
Flying
Rot Fly — If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.
Creature - Demon
Plague Drone (40k) 47
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Counters

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Scion of the Swarm
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Scion of the Swarm (j25) 487
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Wall of Limbs
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses X life, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Zombie Wall
Wall of Limbs (m15) 121
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Drain

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Contaminated Ground
Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.
Enchantment - Aura
Contaminated Ground (gtc) 59
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Defiant Bloodlord
Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Creature - Vampire
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
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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
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Epicure of Blood
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Epicure of Blood (j25) 435
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Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Horror Halfling
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker (ltc) 26
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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 (dsc) 142
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Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
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Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
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Starscape Cleric
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
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
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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 (j25) 71
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Draw

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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
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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 (eld) 75
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Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
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Cosmos Elixir
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.
Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
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Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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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 (j25) 479
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Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
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Sygg, River Cutthroat
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Sygg, River Cutthroat (plst) ZNC-103
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Evasion

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Filth
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.
Creature - Incarnation
Filth (plst) JUD-66
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Finisher

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Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
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Finisher

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Instant

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Nightcreep
Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps.
Instant
Nightcreep (dis) 49
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Instant

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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 (tdc) 341
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Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
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Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
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Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
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Crumbling Necropolis
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
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Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (tdc) 357
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Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
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Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 280
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Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (tdm) 284
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Smoldering Marsh
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Smoldering Marsh (tdc) 395
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Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tdc) 398
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Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tdm) 281
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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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Lifegain

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Bloodbond Vampire
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Shaman Ally
Bloodbond Vampire (j22) 380
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Bloodthirsty Aerialist
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (j25) 409
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.31 $0.15
Creeping Bloodsucker
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Creature - Vampire
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
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Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
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Diamond Mare
As this creature enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horse
Diamond Mare (plst) M19-231
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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
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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
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Tablet of the Guilds
As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235
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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
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Protection

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Painter's Servant
As this creature enters, choose a color.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.
Creature Artifact - Scarecrow
Painter's Servant (shm) 257
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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
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Blanket of Night
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Enchantment
Blanket of Night (vis) 52
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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 (drc) 124
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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 (dsc) 243
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Chromatic Lantern
Lands you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
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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
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$19.99 $21.07 $13.78
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
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Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
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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 (mh3) 274
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$1.49 $0.74 $0.32
Nightscape Familiar
Blue spells and red spells you cast cost
less to cast.
: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.39 $0.31
Relic of Sauron
: Add two mana in any combination of
,
, and/or
.
,
: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Artifact
Relic of Sauron (ltc) 79
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.90 $8.02
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Color tag templates(None)
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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 (tdc) 325
Color tag templates(None)
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Recursion

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Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
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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 (otc) 152
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Removal

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Bedevil
Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.
Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Color tag templates(None)
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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
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Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Instant
Countersquall (plst) DDH-59
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Crosis's Charm
Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.
Instant
Crosis's Charm (plst) C17-169
Color tag templates(None)
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Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Color tag templates(None)
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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
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$0.35 $0.16 $0.15
Noxious Gearhulk
Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Noxious Gearhulk (tdc) 191
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.39 $0.33
Rakdos Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.87 $0.46
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Terminate (acr) 98
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Undermine
Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.
Instant
Undermine (scd) 254
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Removal

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Theft

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Geyadrone Dihada
Protection from permanents with corruption counters on them
+1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Put a corruption counter on up to one other target creature or planeswalker.
−3: Gain control of target creature or planeswalker until end of turn. Untap it and put a corruption counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
−7: Gain control of each permanent with a corruption counter on it.
Legendary Planeswalker - Dihada
Geyadrone Dihada (mh2) 199
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Prince of Thralls
Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that opponent pays 3 life.
Creature - Demon
Prince of Thralls (ala) 182
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Wrexial, the Risen Deep
Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.)
Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Kraken
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (ncc) 359
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Tokens

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Great Unclean One
Reverberating Summons — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 2 life. Then for each opponent who has less life than you, create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.
Creature - Demon
Great Unclean One (40k) 35
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Tutor

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Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Color tag templates(None)
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