Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

As Agadeem, the Undercrypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

Flying

Whenever Ancient Copper Dragon deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the result.

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Draw a card.

Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them.

If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color.

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

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

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

At the beginning of your precombat 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 has every creature type.)

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.

Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Artifact offering (You may cast this spell as though it had flash by sacrificing an artifact and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed artifact. Mana cost includes color.)

Flying, double strike

Creatures attacking your opponents have double strike.

Flash

Enchant creature

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.

{0}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn.

Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Flying

{B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodtracker.

When Bloodtracker leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Canyon Slough enters the battlefield tapped.

Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.

{T}: Add {B}.

{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest number of artifacts an opponent controls.

Flying, trample, haste

Whenever Cavern-Hoard Dragon deals combat damage to a player, you create a Treasure token for each artifact that player controls.

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.)

Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

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

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

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 you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Trample

Cryptborn Horror enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

Cut deals 4 damage to target creature.

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Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)

Each opponent loses X life.

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.

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.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Menace

As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} 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.

First strike

As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay.

Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, Defiler of Instinct deals 1 damage to any target.

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.

You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

When Dockside Extortionist enters the battlefield, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Flying, haste

Other creatures you control have haste.

Whenever an opponent casts a creature or planeswalker spell with the same name as a card in their graveyard, that player loses 10 life.

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Search your library for a Dragon permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Choose one --

• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

You may cast up to one target instant card and/or up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard each with mana value X or less without paying their mana costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If X is 10 or more, copy each of those spells twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

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.

As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Grand Coliseum enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Grand Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.

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.)

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Menace

Greven, Predator Captain 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.

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

Morph {2}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Convoke

Flying

When Hoarding Broodlord enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.

Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

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 all cards in the chosen pile into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)

Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.

• Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand.

• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Lifelink

For each {B} 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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Destroy target creature with mana value X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control

When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Flying

When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Equip {0}

Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

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."

Malakir Mire enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} 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.

Flying

Primarch of the Death Guard -- At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.

({T}: Add {R}.)

({T}: Add {R}.)

({T}: Add {R}.)

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Flying, trample

When Orcus, Prince of Undeath enters the battlefield, 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.

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

As long as Pact Weapon 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.

Converge -- You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

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

This spell costs 3 life more to cast for each target.

Destroy any number of target creatures.

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Choose one --

• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each sacrificed creature.

• Pay X life, then look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.

Entwine {B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

When Priest of Gix enters the battlefield, add {B}{B}{B}.

When Priest of Urabrask enters the battlefield, add {R}{R}{R}.

When Priest of the Blood Rite enters the battlefield, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

Choose one --

• Exile target player's graveyard.

• Destroy target artifact.

• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}.

{2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Ramunap Ruins deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Destroy all green creatures or all white creatures. They can't be regenerated. You lose 2 life for each creature that died this way.

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

Menace

{T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

When Shadowgrange Archfiend enters the battlefield, 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--{2}{B}, 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.)

Flying

Drain Life -- When Shard of the Nightbringer enters the battlefield, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Shatterskull Smashing deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, Shatterskull Smashing deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.

As Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {R}.

Deathtouch

Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Flying, haste

Shivan Devastator enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Spectacle {1}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, Spawn of Mayhem deals 1 damage to each player. Then if you have 10 or less life, put a +1/+1 counter on Spawn of Mayhem.

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.

{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.

{T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.

{T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.

{5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

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.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tarnished Citadel deals 3 damage to you.

{T}, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

II -- Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

III -- Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Flying, haste

Lieutenant -- As long as you control your commander, Tyrant's Familiar gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Tyrant's Familiar attacks, it deals 7 damage to target creature defending player controls."

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."

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."

II -- Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"

III -- Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Flying

Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, create a 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Flying

{B}, 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.)

{T}: Add {C}.

{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.