First strike

Whenever a creature dealt damage by Abattoir Ghoul this turn dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Spells your opponents cast that target Accursed Witch cost {1} less to cast.

When Accursed Witch dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under your control attached to target opponent.

Enchant player

Spells you cast that target enchanted player cost {1} less to cast.

At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

As long as Adanto Vanguard is attacking, it gets +2/+0.

Pay 4 life: Adanto Vanguard gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

+1: You gain 2 life.

-1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

-6: Create a white Avatar creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate.

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

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

-3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn.

-8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Flying

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

Angel of Vitality gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.

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

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)

You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on Angelheart Vial.

{2}, {T}, Remove four charge counters from Angelheart Vial: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Lord of the Pyrrhian Legions -- Whenever Anrakyr the Traveller attacks, you may cast an artifact spell from your hand or graveyard by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. If Answered Prayers isn't a creature, it becomes a 3/3 Angel creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Vigilance

When Arbiter of Knollridge enters the battlefield, each player's life total becomes the highest life total among all players.

Flying

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

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Flying

Your opponents can't gain life.

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

Flash

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

Flying

When Archon of Coronation enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.

As long as you're the monarch, damage doesn't cause you to lose life. (When a creature deals combat damage to you, its controller still becomes the monarch.)

Flying

Whenever Archon of Cruelty enters the battlefield or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

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.

First strike, menace

Chainsword -- Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Deathtouch, lifelink

At the beginning of your end step, choose one --

• Feed -- Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn.

• Friends -- You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

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.

Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.

{2}{W}: Another target Cleric gains lifelink until end of turn.

Whenever Audacious Thief attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Whenever Augury Adept deals combat damage to a player, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You gain life equal to its mana value.

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.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

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.

Deathtouch

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

{1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.

(Transforms from Azor's Gateway.)

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is your life total.

Choose one --

• Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

• Draw a card.

• Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

When Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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

Creatures you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you lose 1 life and create a 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token.

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.)

You gain 1 life.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Flash

Enchant creature

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

{0}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

{T}: Add {C}.

{3}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Steppe: You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

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

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

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

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

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodbond Vampire.

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.

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

{8}: Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Flying

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

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.

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.

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

Each other player loses X life.

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Brackish Trudge enters the battlefield tapped.

{1}{B}: Return Brackish Trudge from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you gained life this turn.

{T}: You gain 1 life.

When Brokers Hideout enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

When Brood of Cockroaches is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of the next end step, you lose 1 life and return Brood of Cockroaches to your hand.

Menace

Whenever a creature attacks one of your opponents, that player loses 1 life.

When Callous Bloodmage enters the battlefield, choose one --

• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

• Exile target player's graveyard.

Whenever a creature you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchant land you control

Enchanted land has "{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 0/1 white Caribou creature token."

Sacrifice a Caribou token: You gain 1 life.

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "{T}: Target player loses 3 life."

At the beginning of each upkeep, you gain 3 life.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, double its controller's life total.

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Celestial Unicorn.

Flying, lifelink

Healing Tears -- At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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

I, II -- Chainer's Torment deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

III -- Create an X/X black Nightmare Horror creature token, where X is half your life total, rounded up. It deals X damage to you.

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.

{T}: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

{T}: Target player loses 5 life.

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

When Charming Prince enters the battlefield, choose one --

• Scry 2.

• You gain 3 life.

• Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Sacrifice Children of Korlis: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

As Circle of Affliction enters the battlefield, choose a color.

Whenever a source of the chosen color deals damage to you, you may pay {1}. If you do, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchant artifact or creature

As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets -1/-1 and can't block.

Enchanted permanent has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life."

For each land, destroy that land unless any player pays 1 life.

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

{3}{W}: Level 2

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

{4}{W}: Level 3

When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

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

Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Cleric of Life's Bond.

Flying

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Flying

When Cloudblazer enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Leading from the Front -- Whenever Commissar Severina Raine attacks, each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.

Summary Execution -- {2}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Exile target card from a graveyard.

Draw a card.

---

Target player sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to its power.

Spend only black mana on X.

Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Target player sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.)

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 3 life.

Enchant land

Enchanted land is a Swamp.

Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

When Corpse Augur dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

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.

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Creeping Bloodsucker deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Creeping Chill deals 3 damage to each opponent and you gain 3 life.

When Creeping Chill is put into your graveyard from your library, you may exile it. If you do, Creeping Chill deals 3 damage to each opponent and you gain 3 life.

Other Horses you control have indestructible.

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Enchant player

Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you gain 2 life. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchant player

Whenever a creature attacks enchanted player, its controller gains 1 life.

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)

You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Target player draws X cards and 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.

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 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, you lose 1 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Daxos of Meletis can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

Whenever Daxos of Meletis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.)

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

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Death Grasp deals X damage to any target. You gain X life.

Enchant creature

When enchanted creature dies, its controller loses life equal to its power and you gain life equal to its toughness.

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

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

Target player draws two cards.

Flashback--{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Flying, trample

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

As Diamond Mare enters the battlefield, choose a color.

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

Menace, deathtouch

When Dire Fleet Ravager enters the battlefield, each player loses a third of their life, rounded up.

Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

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

{4}{W}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Flying, lifelink

Divinity of Pride gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Spend only black mana on X.

Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Flying, double strike, lifelink

Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Choose one --

• You gain 5 life.

• Counter target spell.

• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Protection from white

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

Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand.

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.

Flying, ward {2}

Whenever Elenda and Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{B}. If you do, draw X cards.

At the beginning of each end step, you may pay 4 life. If you do, create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Flying, double strike

You have hexproof.

If your life total would be reduced to 0 or less, instead transform Enduring Angel and your life total becomes 3. Then if Enduring Angel didn't transform this way, you lose the game.

Flying

You have hexproof.

Angelic Enforcer's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.

Whenever Angelic Enforcer attacks, double your life total.

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 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.

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Eternity Vessel enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.

Landfall -- Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on Eternity Vessel.

Pay 1 life: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Ethereal Champion this turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one --

• You gain 2 life.

• Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

• Each opponent loses 1 life.

Lifelink

{4}: Exchange your life total with Evra, Halcyon Witness's power.

Flying

If you would lose the game, instead exile Exquisite Archangel and your life total becomes equal to your starting life total.

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.

When Eye of Vecna enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

Flying

Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Famished Paladin doesn't untap during your untap step.

Whenever you gain life, untap Famished Paladin.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if an opponent lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or sacrifice a creature or enchantment.

Destroy target creature.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you lost life last turn, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

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.

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

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

{3}, Sacrifice Fountain of Renewal: Draw a card.

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control. Round up each time.

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sacrifice Garza's Assassin: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Recover--Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in target opponent's hand.

{3}{W}: Tap target creature. Activate only if Gerrard Capashen is attacking.

{W}, {T}: You gain 2 life.

Channel -- {1}{W}, Discard Ghost-Lit Redeemer: You gain 4 life.

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Gideon's Company.

{3}{W}: Put a loyalty counter on target Gideon planeswalker.

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.

Cumulative upkeep--Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, sacrifice a land.

Creatures you control can't attack.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Whenever one or more Vampires you control attack, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink.

{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Glass-Cast Heart and thirteen Blood tokens: Each opponent loses 13 life and you gain 13 life.

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.

Ward--Discard a card.

Whenever Graveyard Trespasser enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Daybound (If a player casts no spells during their own turn, it becomes night next turn.)

Ward--Discard a card.

Whenever Graveyard Glutton enters the battlefield or attacks, exile up to two target cards from graveyards. For each creature card exiled this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Nightbound (If a player casts at least two spells during their own turn, it becomes day next turn.)

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.)

Reverberating Summons -- At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 2 life. Then for each opponent who has less life than you, create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.

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

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.

Flying, lifelink

Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.

Flying

Whenever Gwaihir attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying and "Whenever this creature attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn."

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

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

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Choose one --

• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.

• Target player gains twice X life.

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.

You gain 20 life.

Suspend 10--{W} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {W} and exile it with ten time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Flying

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

{1}{W}: Heron of Hope gains lifelink until end of turn.

Menace

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, Ill-Gotten Inheritance deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

{5}{B}, Sacrifice Ill-Gotten Inheritance: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

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

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

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.

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Cumulative upkeep--Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.

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

({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.

Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.

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.

Flying

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life and exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and has toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

First strike

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

{1}{W}: Knight of Dawn's Light gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

{2}{B}: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Flying

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

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro, Pitlord unless you pay {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

({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.

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into a player's graveyard from the battlefield, that player loses 1 life.

All lands you control become 1/1 creatures until end of turn. They're still lands.

---

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Activate only during your upkeep.

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 a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Whenever a land enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

Flying

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may pay life equal to its mana value. If you do, put it onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Warlock in addition to its other types.

If a Warlock you control would die, exile it instead.

Flying, trample

{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target player mills three cards.

Pay 1 life: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast a spell from your graveyard.

Enchant creature

Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, you gain 4 life.

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.

Flying

When Magister Sphinx enters the battlefield, target player's life total becomes 10.

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

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

{T}: You gain 1 life.

Lifelink

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Flying

Pay 4 life: Regenerate Marrow Bats.

Flying

{1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

{1}, Reveal X white cards from your hand, Sacrifice Martyr of Sands: You gain three times X life.

Pay 2 life: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

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}

When Master of Death enters the battlefield, 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.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Master of Death is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.

Flying, vigilance

You have hexproof.

Whenever Metropolis Reformer is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Flying, trample

When Mindwrack Demon enters the battlefield, mill four cards.

Delirium -- At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 4 life unless there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Trample

As Minion of the Wastes enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.

Minion of the Wastes's power and toughness are each equal to the life paid as it entered the battlefield.

{T}: Add {C}.

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

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.

{B}{B}, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)

Whenever Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Cast this spell only during your end step.

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

Draw X cards.

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.

If an opponent gained life this turn, you may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Target player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Whenever Night Market Lookout becomes tapped, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

When Nihiloor enters the battlefield, for each opponent, tap up to one untapped creature you control. When you do, gain control of target creature that player controls with power less than or equal to the tapped creature's power for as long as you control Nihiloor.

Whenever you attack with a creature an opponent owns, you gain 2 life and that player loses 2 life.

Whenever a creature you control blocks, you gain 2 life.

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.

Kicker {3}{B}

Menace, lifelink

When Nullpriest of Oblivion enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.

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

Oathsworn Vampire enters the battlefield tapped.

You may cast Oathsworn Vampire from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

When Obzedat, Ghost Council enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste.

Your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

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

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro, Ageless Ascetic is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

{2}{W}: Target player gains 1 life.

{2}{B}: Each player loses 1 life.

Inspired -- Whenever Pain Seer becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.

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 each upkeep, if you lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Paladin of Atonement.

When Paladin of Atonement dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Whenever Panicked Bystander or another creature you control dies, you gain 1 life.

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, transform Panicked Bystander.

Whenever Cackling Culprit or another creature you control dies, you gain 1 life.

{1}{B}: Cackling Culprit gains deathtouch until end of turn.

As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1.

Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures.

Fox offering (You may cast this card any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Fox and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Fox. Mana cost includes color.)

Whenever a creature attacks, you may gain 1 life.

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

Phyrexian Colossus doesn't untap during your untap step.

Pay 8 life: Untap Phyrexian Colossus.

Phyrexian Colossus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

When Phyrexian Delver enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Cumulative upkeep {B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card for each age counter on Phyrexian Etchings.

When Phyrexian Etchings is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.

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

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.

{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

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

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life."

Whenever Pious Evangel or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice another permanent: Transform Pious Evangel.

Whenever Wayward Disciple or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Flying

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

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

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

Each player loses a third of their life, then discards a third of the cards in their hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures they control, then sacrifices a third of the lands they control. Round up each time.

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice Priest of Fell Rites: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

{T}: Add {C}. 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.

Choose one --

• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.

• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

At the beginning of your upkeep, repeat the following process for each opponent in turn order. Reveal the top card of your library. That player may pay life equal to that card's mana value. If they do, exile that card. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Target player mills X cards and you gain X life.

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4} and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with Purgatory to the battlefield.

Flying

If noncombat damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

When Purity is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

When Radiant Fountain enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

{T}: Add {C}.

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. You lose 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.

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

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

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

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if your team gained life this turn, create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

Sacrifice any number of permanents. You gain 2 life for each permanent sacrificed this way.

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

Flying

When Resolute Archangel enters the battlefield, if your life total is less than your starting life total, it becomes equal to your starting life total.

Flying

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

{3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, Resplendent Angel gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

---

Double your life total. Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

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

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Whenever a creature attacks, you gain 1 life.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.

At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Roiling Horror's power and toughness are each equal to your life total minus the life total of an opponent with the most life.

Suspend X--{X}{B}{B}{B}. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {X}{B}{B}{B} and exile it with X time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from Roiling Horror while it's exiled, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

When you have 30 or more life, flip Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant.

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

At the beginning of your upkeep, tap Sangrophage unless you pay 2 life.

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

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Savage Gorger. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Flying

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Scion of the Swarm.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, sacrifice Second Chance and take an extra turn after this one.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Flying

Whenever another creature dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Sengir, the Dark Baron.

Whenever another player loses the game, you gain life equal to that player's life total as the turn began.

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

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.

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.

When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Flying

Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."

Inspired -- Whenever Servant of Tymaret becomes untapped, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

{2}{B}: Regenerate Servant of Tymaret.

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Flying

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz, the Skyshark and you gain 1 life.

{W/U}: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Shambling Vent enters the battlefield tapped.

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

{1}{W}{B}: Shambling Vent becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

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.

Flying

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may gain 3 life.

Flying

When Shattered Seraph enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.

{2}, Exile Shattered Seraph from your hand: Target land gains "{T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}" until Shattered Seraph is cast from exile. You may cast Shattered Seraph for as long as it remains exiled.

Flying

Shauku, Endbringer can't attack if there's another creature on the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.

{T}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Shauku.

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.)

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, you lose that much life.

Exile Sheoldred's Restoration.

As Sigarda's Splendor enters the battlefield, note your life total.

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if your life total is greater than or equal to the last noted life total for Sigarda's Splendor. Then note your life total.

Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 1 life.

Choose two --

• Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn.

• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

• Target opponent sacrifices a creature.

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return Silversmote Ghoul from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

{1}{B}, Sacrifice Silversmote Ghoul: Draw a card.

Medicus Ministorum -- When Sister Hospitaller enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to its mana value.

+1: Until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays 2 life for each of those creatures.

-3: Search your library for a Dragon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

-7: Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Sivitri, Dragon Master can be your commander.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."

Corrupted -- As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.

Buyback--Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

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

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.

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

-3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.

-7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

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

Enchant creature

Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

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

Enchant creature

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

Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

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

Soul of Eternity's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.

Encore {7}{W}{W} ({7}{W}{W}, 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.)

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

You gain life equal to target creature's power.

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

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever Souls of the Faultless is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life and attacking player loses that much life.

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.

Vigilance, lifelink

{T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

Flying

At the beginning of your end step, you gain 3 life if Sphinx Sovereign is untapped. Otherwise, each opponent loses 3 life.

Flying, first strike, vigilance, lifelink, protection from red and from green

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

{B}{B}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a Swamp: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target Vampire you control.

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1.

Exile Stunning Reversal.

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature with power 5 or greater, you may gain 2 life.

{T}: Add {C}.

If an opponent has more life than you, you gain 4 life.

If an opponent controls more creatures than you, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens.

If an opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw a card.

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.

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.

Whenever equipped creature dies, you gain 3 life.

Equip {1}

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

{T}, Sacrifice Tainted Sigil: You gain life equal to the total life lost by all players this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Lifelink

The Seven-fold Chant -- At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. If seven or more creatures died this turn, instead you draw seven cards and you lose 7 life.

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

Blitz--{2}{B}{B}, Pay 2 life. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

You may cast Tenacious Underdog from your graveyard using its blitz ability.

You lose X life and create X tapped Powerstone tokens. Then all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control. (The tokens are artifacts with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying.

{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.

At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

{T}, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.

Arcane Life-support -- If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1.

A Thousand Souls Die Every Day -- {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

When The Kenriths' Royal Funeral enters the battlefield, exile up to two target legendary creature cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the greatest mana value among cards exiled this way.

Legendary spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each card exiled with The Kenriths' Royal Funeral.

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 your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

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

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.)

Lifelink

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.)

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card. If this spell was kicked, you gain 3 life.

At the beginning of your upkeep, count the number of permanents you control. Your life total becomes that number.

{8}, {T}: You gain 10 life.

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

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

Defender

{T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with Tree of Perdition's toughness.

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one --

• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.

• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Twinblade Paladin.

As long as you have 25 or more life, Twinblade Paladin has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay 2 life. If they don't, they return a permanent they control to its owner's hand.

Enchant land

Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

{1}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card, then discard a card.

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

Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.

Flying, lifelink

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Flying

Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Flying

Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.

Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.

Whenever Vedalken Ghoul becomes blocked, defending player loses 4 life.

Menace

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vengeful Warchief. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

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

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

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.)

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.

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Voice of the Blessed.

As long as Voice of the Blessed has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance.

As long as Voice of the Blessed has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Vigilance, lifelink

{T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Pay 1 life: Wall of Blood gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Wall of Limbs.

{5}{B}{B}, Sacrifice Wall of Limbs: Target player loses X life, where X is Wall of Limbs's power.

Defender, flying

Cumulative upkeep--An opponent gains 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

You gain life equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield plus the number of artifacts on the battlefield.

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no untapped lands, you gain 2 life.

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.

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.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.

Counter target creature spell.

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, you gain 5 life instead.

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

Skip your draw step.

Pay 1 life: Draw a card.

Whenever Zhentarim Bandit attacks, you may pay 1 life. If you do, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.