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Commander

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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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Artifact

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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
Jester's Mask
This artifact enters tapped.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Target opponent puts the cards from their hand on top of their library. Search that player's library for that many cards. That player puts those cards into their hand, then shuffles.
Artifact
Jester's Mask (ice) 325

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Boardwipe

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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 (mkc) 126
Deadly Tempest
Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c15) 19
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (tdc) 185
Mutilate
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Sorcery
Mutilate (mb2) 45
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 (cmd) 95

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Burn

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Underworld Dreams
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.
Enchantment
Underworld Dreams (thb) 121

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Counterspell

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Dash Hopes
When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Dash Hopes (plc) 68
Deathgrip
: Counter target green spell.
Enchantment
Deathgrip (4ed) 130
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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Discard

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Cabal Conditioning
Any number of target players each discard a number of cards equal to the greatest mana value among permanents you control.
Sorcery
Cabal Conditioning (scg) 56
Ill-Gotten Gains
Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.
Sorcery
Ill-Gotten Gains (cns) 114

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Drain

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Blood Tithe
Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Blood Tithe (m11) 84
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
Essence Harvest
Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
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
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 (ths) 89
Kokusho, the Evening Star
Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Kokusho, the Evening Star (chk) 122
Polluted Bonds
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Polluted Bonds (wot) 34
Shard of the Nightbringer
Flying
Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Creature - C'tan
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
Sorin's Vengeance
Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 10 life.
Sorcery
Sorin's Vengeance (m12) 111
Suffer the Past
Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Instant
Suffer the Past (c21) 155
Syphon Soul
Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Sorcery
Syphon Soul (6ed) 159
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (m3c) 207
Tendrils of Agony
Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (mb2) 50
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 (mkc) 143
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 (pm21) 127p

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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 (plst) ORI-221
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
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator
If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (woe) 78
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 (peld) 75p
Clackbridge Troll
Trample, haste
When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.
Creature - Troll
Clackbridge Troll (peld) 84p
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (voc) 126
Demonlord Belzenlok
Flying, trample
When Demonlord Belzenlok enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card, then put that card into your hand. If the card's mana value is 4 or greater, repeat this process. Demonlord Belzenlok deals 1 damage to you for each card put into your hand this way.
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon
Demonlord Belzenlok (cmm) 151
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 (pm20) 96p
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (tdc) 181
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Hostile Negotiations
Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Hostile Negotiations (bro) 105
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 (rav) 95
Necrodominance
Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Legendary Enchantment
Necrodominance (mh3) 102
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
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
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
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 (pm21) 117p
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
Shakedown Heavy
Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.
Creature - Warrior Ogre
Shakedown Heavy (snc) 95
Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
Starscream, Power Hungry
More Than Meets the Eye
(You may cast this card converted for
.)
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, if you're the monarch, target opponent loses 2 life.
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, convert Starscream.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Robot
Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5
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
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) 105
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 (pm20) 122p

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Enchantment

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Measure of Wickedness
At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this enchantment and you lose 8 life.
Whenever another card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, target opponent gains control of this enchantment.
Enchantment
Measure of Wickedness (sok) 82

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Exquisite combo

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Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c13) 92

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Finisher

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Bond of Agony
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Each other player loses X life.
Sorcery
Bond of Agony (dis) 38
Breach the Multiverse
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fic) 276
Phage the Untouchable
When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.
Legendary Creature - Avatar Minion
Phage the Untouchable (10e) 166
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Rite of Consumption
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Sorcery
Rite of Consumption (shm) 76

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Fun

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Cruel Entertainment
Choose target player and another target player. The first player controls the second player during the second player's next turn, and the second player controls the first player during the first player's next turn.
Sorcery
Cruel Entertainment (c16) 11
Head Games
Target opponent puts the cards from their hand on top of their library. Search that player's library for that many cards. The player puts those cards into their hand, then shuffles.
Sorcery
Head Games (10e) 148
Mindslaver
,
, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)
Legendary Artifact
Mindslaver (otp) 63
Worst Fears
You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)
Sorcery
Worst Fears (mb2) 52

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Half life combo

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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
Unstoppable Slasher
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.
Creature - Zombie Assassin
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 312

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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 (wwk) 132
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (pdom) 238p
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
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 (khc) 115
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (m21) 248
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (m19) 254

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Life modification

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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
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
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs
less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.
Legendary Creature - Avatar
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate (dom) 108
Tree of Perdition
Defender
: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Perdition (emn) 109

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Lifegain

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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
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
Curse of Fool's Wisdom
Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 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.)
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (ddc) 57
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
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
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
Qarsi Revenant
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew —
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Vampire
Qarsi Revenant (tdm) 338
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 (jmp) 272
Soul Conduit
,
: Two target players exchange life totals.
Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
Tavern Swindler
, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.
Creature - Human Rogue
Tavern Swindler (ddm) 45
Vampiric Link
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Enchantment - Aura
Vampiric Link (plc) 92

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Mana

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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
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 (dsc) 368
Magus of the Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Coffers (plc) 73
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
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

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Mill

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Angel of Suffering
Flying
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.
Creature - Angel Nightmare
Angel of Suffering (psnc) 67p
Mindcrank
Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Artifact
Mindcrank (nph) 144

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Protection

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Darkness
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
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 (fdn) 174
Feign Death
Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."
Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
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
Koskun Falls
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you tap an untapped creature you control.
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
World Enchantment
Koskun Falls (hml) 55
Maze of Ith
: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
Land
Maze of Ith (v12) 10
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
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
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
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
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
Undying Malice
Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."
Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134

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Pump

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Hatred
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
Instant
Hatred (wc99) js64sb

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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 (onc) 125
Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Bog Witch
,
, Discard a card: Add
.
Creature - Human Spellshaper
Bog Witch (mmq) 118
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (itp) 19
Gilded Lotus
: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Gilded Lotus (cmm) 387
Heartless Summoning
Creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.
Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (inr) 117
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (cmm) 395
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
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
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
The Darkness Crystal
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
,
: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96
Thran Dynamo
: Add
.
Artifact
Thran Dynamo (plst) IMA-230

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All Hallow's Eve
Exile All Hallow's Eve with two scream counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it. If there are no more scream counters on it, put it into your graveyard and each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
All Hallow's Eve (me3) 57
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 (4ed) 118
Balthor the Defiled
Minion creatures get +1/+1.
, Exile Balthor: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Dwarf
Balthor the Defiled (jud) 61
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
Command the Dreadhorde
Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Endless Whispers
Each creature has "When this creature dies, choose target opponent. That player puts this card from its owner's graveyard onto the battlefield under their control at the beginning of the next end step."
Enchantment
Endless Whispers (5dn) 49
From the Catacombs
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.
Escape—
, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
Grave Betrayal
Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
Enchantment
Grave Betrayal (rtr) 67
Grave Endeavor
Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.
Instant
Grave Endeavor (afc) 24
Necromancy
You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
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 (fic) 282
Soul Exchange
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +2/+2 counter on that creature if the exiled creature was a Thrull.
Sorcery
Soul Exchange (fem) 43
Toshiro Umezawa
Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Human Samurai
Toshiro Umezawa (bok) 89

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Ashes to Ashes
Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.
Sorcery
Ashes to Ashes (ren) 47
Baleful Mastery
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the
cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
Breathe Your Last
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.
Instant
Breathe Your Last (mh3) 82
Call to the Void
Each player secretly chooses a creature they control and a creature they don't control. Then those choices are revealed. Destroy each creature chosen this way.
Sorcery
Call to the Void (clb) 118
Choice of Damnations
Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents of their choice.
Sorcery - Arcane
Choice of Damnations (sok) 62
Consume Spirit
Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.
Sorcery
Consume Spirit (mrd) 60
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
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 (ddc) 55
Curse of the Cabal
Target player sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice, rounded down.
Suspend 2—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if this card is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent of their choice. If the player does, put two time counters on this card.
Sorcery
Curse of the Cabal (tsp) 99
Death Match
Whenever a creature enters, that creature's controller may have target creature of their choice get -3/-3 until end of turn.
Enchantment
Death Match (ons) 136
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (nph) 57
Do or Die
Separate all creatures target player controls into two piles. Destroy all creatures in the pile of that player's choice. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Do or Die (inv) 102
Drain Life
Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.
Sorcery
Drain Life (4ed) 132
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 (znr) 102
Flay Essence
Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the number of counters on it.
Sorcery
Flay Essence (mh2) 85
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
Grave Peril
When a nonblack creature enters, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, destroy that creature.
Enchantment
Grave Peril (c15) 128
Hellfire
Destroy all nonblack creatures. Hellfire deals X plus 3 damage to you, where X is the number of creatures that died this way.
Sorcery
Hellfire (leg) 105
Hex
Destroy six target creatures.
Sorcery
Hex (otc) 136
Horobi, Death's Wail
Flying
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Horobi, Death's Wail (chk) 117
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Join the Dead
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
Instant
Join the Dead (lci) 110
Killing Wave
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
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 (c14) 25
March of Wretched Sorrow
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs
less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.
Instant
March of Wretched Sorrow (neo) 111
Overkill
Target creature gets -0/-9999 until end of turn.
Instant
Overkill (fin) 109
Phyrexian Obliterator
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 105
Reckless Spite
Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.
Instant
Reckless Spite (cns) 123
Reign of the Pit
Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the total power of the creatures sacrificed this way.
Sorcery
Reign of the Pit (scd) 102
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
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 (tsr) 145
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 (inr) 134
Vendetta
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Instant
Vendetta (roe) 130
Victim of Night
Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.
Instant
Victim of Night (isd) 124
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124
Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Put up to one target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker. Exile Yawgmoth's Vile Offering.
Legendary Sorcery
Yawgmoth's Vile Offering (dom) 114

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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
Platinum Angel
Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.
Creature Artifact - Angel
Platinum Angel (m10) 218

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Bitter Ordeal
Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles.
Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Sorcery
Bitter Ordeal (fut) 80
Descent into Madness
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on this enchantment, then each player exiles X permanents they control and/or cards from their hand, where X is the number of despair counters on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Descent into Madness (avr) 97
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 (all) 47
Nightcreep
Until end of turn, all creatures become black and all lands become Swamps.
Instant
Nightcreep (dis) 49
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled (pm15) 110p
Sadistic Sacrament
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles. If this spell was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles.
Sorcery
Sadistic Sacrament (zen) 110

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Ashen Powder
Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Ashen Powder (mir) 104
Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
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 (pmid) 103p
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Deathtouch
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Aetherborn
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (cmm) 162
Gonti, Night Minister
Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Aetherborn
Gonti, Night Minister (dft) 87
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
Lord of the Void
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Demon
Lord of the Void (gtc) 71
Mark of the Oni
Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
At the beginning of the end step, if you control no Demons, sacrifice this Aura.
Enchantment - Aura
Mark of the Oni (bok) 73
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 120

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Infernal Genesis
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player mills a card. Then they create X 1/1 black Minion creature tokens, where X is the milled card's mana value.
Enchantment
Infernal Genesis (pcy) 68
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

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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
Demonic Consultation
Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
Instant
Demonic Consultation (mb2) 181
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
Dimir House Guard
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
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 - Skeleton
Dimir House Guard (rvr) 73
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
Mastermind's Acquisition
Choose one —
• Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.
Sorcery
Mastermind's Acquisition (rix) 77

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Griselbrand
Flying, lifelink
Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Griselbrand (phel) 106
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
Inspired — Whenever King Macar becomes untapped, you may exile target creature. If you do, create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed (jou) 74
One with Death
You lose the game.
Instant
One with Death (cmb2) 45
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Skip your draw step.
Pay 1 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Yawgmoth's Bargain (uds) 75

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