Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Sorin, Vampire Lord

+1: Up to one target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
−2: Sorin, Vampire Lord deals 4 damage to any target. You gain 4 life.
−8: Until end of turn, each Vampire you control gains "{T}: Gain control of target creature."

Basilica Bell-Haunt

When Basilica Bell-Haunt enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card and you gain 3 life.

Astarion, the Decadent

Deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn.
• Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Minthara, Merciless Soul

Ward {X}, where X is the number of experience counters you have.
At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, you get an experience counter.
Creatures you control get +1/+0 for each experience counter you have.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Walking Atlas

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Passageway Seer

Lifelink
When Passageway Seer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative.
At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, put a +1/+1 counter on Passageway Seer.

Cryptic Caves

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Cryptic Caves: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Coils of the Medusa

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/-1.
Sacrifice Coils of the Medusa: Destroy all non-Wall creatures blocking enchanted creature.

Black Dragon Gate

Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield tapped.
As Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than black.
{T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Emeria Angel

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.

Aerial Assault

Destroy target tapped creature. You gain 1 life for each creature you control with flying.

Parasitic Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Archon of Redemption

Flying
Whenever Archon of Redemption or another creature with flying enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain life equal to that creature's power.

Sarevok, Deathbringer

At the beginning of each player's end step, if no permanents left the battlefield this turn, that player loses X life, where X is Sarevok's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, Vindictive Vampire deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

Soulmender

Aron, Benalia's Ruin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Nefarious Imp

Flying
Whenever one or more permanents you control leave the battlefield, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Sol Ring

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Debtors' Knell

({W/B} can be paid with either {W} or {B}.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Dark Ritual

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Murder

Rune-Tail's Essence

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant

When you have 30 or more life, flip Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant.

Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence

Brought Back

Choose up to two target permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped.

Mage Hunters' Onslaught

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Whenever a creature blocks this turn, its controller loses 1 life.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Storm Herd

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Ornithopter of Paradise

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Guiltfeeder

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Guiltfeeder attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Custodi Squire

Flying
Will of the council — When Custodi Squire enters the battlefield, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Kayla's Command

Choose two —
• Create a 2/2 colorless Construct artifact creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains double strike until end of turn.
• Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• You gain 2 life and scry 2.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Ward—Pay 3 life.
Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Oblivion's Hunger

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. Draw a card if that creature has a +1/+1 counter on it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy the creature.)

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Stone Calendar

Spells you cast cost up to {1} less to cast.

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Treasury Thrull

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever Treasury Thrull attacks, you may return target artifact, creature, or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Gravewaker

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{5}{B}{B}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorin's Thirst

Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Arcane Signet

Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
{1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Corpse Knight

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life.

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

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.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Cartographer's Hawk

Flying
When Cartographer's Hawk deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Swamp

Aven Gagglemaster

Flying
When Aven Gagglemaster enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life for each creature you control with flying.

Bishop of Wings

Whenever an Angel enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 4 life.
Whenever an Angel you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Plains

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Atrocious Experiment

Target player mills two cards, draws two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Thirsting Bloodlord

Sephara, Sky's Blade

You may pay {W} and tap four untapped creatures you control with flying rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Pontiff of Blight

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Angelic Gift

Enchant creature
When Angelic Gift enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted creature has flying.

Dawning Angel

Flying
When Dawning Angel enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Ethereal Absolution

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
{2}{W}{B}: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, you create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.