Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.

Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

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

Flying

Other nonblack creatures you control get +1/+1.

Players can't pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities.

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

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

Flying

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Nonbasic lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.

Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast.

Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Choose two --

• Destroy all artifacts.

• Destroy all enchantments.

• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.

• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Flash

Flying

If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

As Black Vise enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.

At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

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.)

Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {W}.

{T}: Add {B}.

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.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

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

Concealed Courtyard enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

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

Flash

If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

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}.

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount.

Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

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.

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

Exile target creature.

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

Vigilance

Other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Your opponents can't gain life.

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

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

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

{T}: Add {C}.

{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

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

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

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

Flying, lifelink

Creatures entering the battlefield or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Iron Maiden deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

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

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a noncreature permanent you control, you may destroy target permanent that opponent controls.

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.

+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

-2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Vigilance, menace, lifelink

Creature cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield.

Players can't cast spells from graveyards.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

({T}: Add {B}.)

Leechridden Swamp enters the battlefield tapped.

{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

-3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

-6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Flying

Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Companion -- Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)

Lifelink

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you.

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

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

Choose one --

• Exile all artifacts.

• Exile all creatures.

• Exile all enchantments.

• Exile all planeswalkers.

Lifelink

When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

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Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Whenever a source you control deals damage to another player, put that many theft counters on Night Dealings.

{2}{B}{B}, Remove X theft counters from Night Dealings: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

As Palace Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons.

• Khans -- At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

• Dragons -- At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

As long as you have 30 or more life, Serra Ascendant gets +5/+5 and has flying.

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.")

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

+1: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to its mana value.

-X: Sorin, Grim Nemesis deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

-9: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players.

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on Sun Droplet.

At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from Sun Droplet. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Activated abilities cost {2} more to activate unless they're mana abilities.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

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

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Talisman of Hierarchy deals 1 damage to you.

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

First strike

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

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.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

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

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

{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Deathtouch

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.