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

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.

Exile target creature or planeswalker.

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.)

Choose one --

• Destroy all creatures.

• Destroy all planeswalkers.

Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

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.

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

{T}: Add {C}.

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

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

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}.

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.

All nonsnow creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of snow permanents you control.

Pay 2 life: Regenerate Deepwood Ghoul.

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

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.

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

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

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.)

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.

Protection from white

At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.

Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers

Boast -- {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.

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

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.

{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

As Gauntlet of Power enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

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.

As Heraldic Banner enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.

{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Partner with Laurine, the Diversion (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Laurine into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)

Lifelink

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life and create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

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.

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.

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

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

{T}: Add {C}.

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

Flying

Pay 1 life: Regenerate Mischievous Poltergeist.

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.

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.)

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Skip your draw step.

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.

Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

{T}, Put a soul counter on Netherborn Altar: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on Netherborn Altar.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.

Equip--Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters the battlefield unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Menace

When Noxious Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

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

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

Planar Atlas enters the battlefield tapped.

When Planar Atlas enters the battlefield, you may look at the top four cards of your library. If you do, reveal up to one land card from among them, then put that card on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in a random order.

{T}: Add {C}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.

You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

When Poet's Quill enters the battlefield, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Equip {1}{B}

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.)

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

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

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."

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.")

Flying

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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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}.

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.

-2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink.

-7: Sorin the Mirthless deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

Enchant creature

Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

{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.

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Flying, lifelink

Whenever The Haunt of Hightower attacks, defending player discards a card.

Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on The Haunt of Hightower.

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, 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.

At the beginning of each player's end step, if no creatures died this turn, Titan Hunter deals 4 damage to that player.

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life.

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

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

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

Lifelink

Devourer of Souls -- Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Venomcrawler.

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

Creatures you control have lifelink.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Protection from Humans

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.

{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)