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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
Rowan, Scion of War
Menace
: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost
less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Rowan, Scion of War (woe) 211

Commander

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Creature

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Carnophage
At the beginning of your upkeep, tap this creature unless you pay 1 life.
Creature - Zombie
Carnophage (exo) 53
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

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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
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
Tree of Perdition
Defender
: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.
Creature - Plant
Tree of Perdition (ecc) 49

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Draw

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Caustic Bronco
Whenever this creature attacks, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's mana value if this creature isn't saddled. Otherwise, each opponent loses that much life.
Saddle 3 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Snake Horse Mount
Caustic Bronco (otj) 82
Corpse Augur
When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Corpse Augur (cmm) 145
Cut of the Profits
Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
You draw X cards and you lose X life.
Sorcery
Cut of the Profits (snc) 72
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
Dark Tutelage
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.
Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Darkstar Augur
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Creature - Bat Warlock
Darkstar Augur (blb) 90
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
Grave Consequences
Each player may exile any number of cards from their graveyard. Then each player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.
Draw a card.
Instant
Grave Consequences (jud) 67
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Greven, Predator Captain
Menace
Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn.
Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Phyrexian
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
Gwenom, Remorseless
Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Gwenom attacks, until end of turn, you may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play cards 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.
Legendary Creature - Spider Hero Symbiote
Gwenom, Remorseless (spm) 56
Infernal Contract
Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Sorcery
Infernal Contract (7ed) 143
Infernal Sovereign
Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Demon
Infernal Sovereign (moc) 75
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (ecc) 81
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (cm2) 77
Skeletal Scrying
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.
Instant
Skeletal Scrying (c17) 125
Underworld Connections
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "
, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Underworld Connections (voc) 138
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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Finisher

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Crackle with Power
Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.
Sorcery
Crackle with Power (stx) 95
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
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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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $17.60
Ifnir Deadlands
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Ifnir Deadlands (ecc) 153
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (sos) 278
Ramunap Ruins
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: This land deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Land - Desert
Ramunap Ruins (otc) 311
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sos) 276

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Lifegain

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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
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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Mill

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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

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Protection

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Boon of Erebos
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Boon of Erebos (ths) 80
Orcish Medicine
Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Instant
Orcish Medicine (ltr) 104
Return to Action
Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121
Rush of Vitality
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")
Instant
Rush of Vitality (kld) 99
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

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Pump

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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

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Ramp

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Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Burnt Offering
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of
and/or
, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Instant
Burnt Offering (ice) 116
Defiler of Flesh
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
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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Recursion

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Brood of Cockroaches
When this creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of the next end step, you lose 1 life and return this card to your hand.
Creature - Insect
Brood of Cockroaches (vis) 53
Festival of Embers
During your turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard by paying 1 life in addition to their other costs.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
: Sacrifice this enchantment.
Enchantment
Festival of Embers (blb) 134
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
Orcus, Prince of Undeath
Flying, trample
When Orcus enters, choose one —
• Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life.
• Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Orcus, Prince of Undeath (afr) 229
Phyrexian Delver
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Creature - Zombie Phyrexian
Phyrexian Delver (moc) 263
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fic) 283
Scourge of the Skyclaves
Kicker

When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up.
Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players.
Creature - Demon
Scourge of the Skyclaves (znr) 122
Shattered Crypt
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Shattered Crypt (wth) 80

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Removal

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Bitter Triumph
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Bitter Triumph (soa) 26
Consume Spirit
Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.
Sorcery
Consume Spirit (dvd) 56
Cut
Cut deals 4 damage to target creature.
Sorcery
Cut // Ribbons (plst) AKH-223
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
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (mm2) 79
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (tdc) 180
Fire Covenant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.
Instant
Fire Covenant (ecc) 54
Killing Wave
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
Profane Command
Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sorcery
Profane Command (ncc) 256
Reckless Spite
Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.
Instant
Reckless Spite (c21) 151
Zero Point Ballad
Destroy all creatures with toughness X or less. You lose X life. If X is 6 or more, return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Zero Point Ballad (eoe) 128

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Tokens

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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
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
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

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