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Commander

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Kaervek, the Punisher
Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Kaervek, the Punisher (otj) 92

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Artifact

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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
The Soul Stone
Indestructible
: Add
.
,
, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone
The Soul Stone (spm) 66

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Counters

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Vadmir, New Blood
Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadmir. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
As long as Vadmir has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has menace and lifelink.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Rogue
Vadmir, New Blood (otj) 113

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Creature

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Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, surveil 1.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent may sacrifice a nontoken creature of their choice. Each opponent who doesn't loses 2 life for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Elder
Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian (fic) 46

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Drain

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (inr) 326
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
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
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
Raven of Fell Omens
Flying
Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Bird
Raven of Fell Omens (otj) 101
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Vein Ripper
Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire Assassin
Vein Ripper (mkm) 346
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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Archon of Cruelty
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Creature - Archon
Archon of Cruelty (m3c) 197
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) 87
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 (mb2) 39
Cling to Dust
Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—
, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Instant
Cling to Dust (plst) THB-87
Cremate
Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.
Instant
Cremate (rtr) 59
Diresight
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Diresight (tle) 162
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 (j22) 403
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (fic) 278
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Professor Onyx
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Professor Onyx (dsc) 153
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Teval's Judgment
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.
Enchantment
Teval's Judgment (tdc) 28
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
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 (j25) 70

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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 (fic) 276

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Land

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Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106

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Lifegain

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Aetherflux Reservoir
Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.
Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Blood Tribute
Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Blood Tribute (c17) 100
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
Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
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

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Mill

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Codex Shredder
: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Ripples of Undeath
At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay
and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.
Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107

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Protection

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Darkness
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
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
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 (tle) 317

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Ramp

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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 (pip) 183
Bubbling Muck
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
Cabal Ritual
Add
.
Threshold — Add
instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Instant
Cabal Ritual (mb2) 177
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) 322
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (fdn) 724
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
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
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 (fic) 372

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Recursion

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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
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 (mkc) 125
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

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Removal

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Blasphemous Edict
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Come Back Wrong
Destroy target creature. If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
Sorcery
Come Back Wrong (dsk) 292
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) 407
Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Darkblast
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Instant
Darkblast (rvr) 454
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (40k) 199
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 (tle) 257
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
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
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Merrow Bonegnawer
: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
Whenever you cast a black spell, you may untap this creature.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
Merrow Bonegnawer (eve) 37
Nowhere to Run
Flash
When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.
Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
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
Orcish Bowmasters
Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.
Creature - Archer Orc
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Pile On
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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.)
Instant
Pile On (mkc) 134
Saw in Half
Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.
Instant
Saw in Half (blc) 113
Slaughter Pact
Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
. If you don't, you lose the game.
Instant
Slaughter Pact (tsr) 138
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 (fic) 285
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
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 (tsr) 144
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
Tetzimoc, Primal Death
Deathtouch
, Reveal this card from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.
When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Tetzimoc, Primal Death (rix) 86
The Meathook Massacre
When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
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 (mh3) 412
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) 390
Tymaret, Chosen from Death
Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Demigod
Tymaret, Chosen from Death (thb) 119
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Sorcery

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Circle of Power
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Wizards you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn.
Sorcery
Circle of Power (fin) 92

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Stax

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Glasses of Urza
: Look at target player's hand.
Artifact
Glasses of Urza (6ed) 287

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Tokens

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Gisa, the Hellraiser
Ward—
, Pay 2 life.
Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace.
Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Gisa, the Hellraiser (otj) 89
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
Tormod, the Desecrator
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
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
Praetor's Grasp
Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Sorcery
Praetor's Grasp (nph) 71
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314

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