Binding Contract -- If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.

{B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards.

{B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

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.

Flying

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.)

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

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.)

Destroy all creatures. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

All Nightmares get +1/+1.

{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.

When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

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

Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

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.

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

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

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

When Disciple of Bolas enters the battlefield, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Destroy target nonblack creature.

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.

Choose one --

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

• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

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.

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.

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

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.

({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.

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

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.

Equip {3}

Destroy target creature.

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

As long as Necrotic Ooze is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

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.

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

-2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.

-8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

When Oubliette enters the battlefield, target creature phases out until Oubliette leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

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.

As Paradise Plume enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.

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

Flying

{B}: Pestilence Demon deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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.)

As Prism Ring enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

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.

Whenever Rakshasa Debaser attacks, put target creature card from defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Encore {6}{B}{B} ({6}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.

You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Flying

When Reiver Demon enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Flying

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

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

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.

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it.

{2}{B}, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob, Dread Weaver into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card.

{X}{1}{B}: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 10 life.

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

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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.)

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

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

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.)

{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

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.

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."

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Lifelink

When Vengeant Vampire dies, destroy target creature an opponent controls and you gain 4 life.

Lifelink

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

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.