When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

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

Flash

Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Protection from black and from red

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

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

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

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.

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.

When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}: Add {W}.

{T}: Add {B}.

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

{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.

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}.

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Add {B}{B}{B}.

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

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

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

{T}: Add {W}.

Channel -- {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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.

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

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 casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

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

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

{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}.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

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

({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.

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.)

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.

{1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Flying, lifelink

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

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

Flying

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

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

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

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

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

({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 noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov of the Ghost Council.

{W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov of the Ghost Council: Exile target creature.

Vigilance, menace, lifelink

Creature cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield.

Players can't cast spells from graveyards.

Rather than pay {2} for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times.

Flying, lifelink

Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.

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

Equip {0}

Lifelink

Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

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.

Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped.

When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

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

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

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

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.

Shattered Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

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

Deathtouch

Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.

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

As Shineshadow Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Shineshadow Snarl enters the battlefield tapped.

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

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

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

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}.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

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

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}.)

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.

{T}: Add {C}.

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

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)

Exile Teferi's Protection.

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

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.

Lifelink

At the beginning of your postcombat main phase, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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

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

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

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

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.)

Destroy target permanent.

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

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

{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.

Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista.

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.

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

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.