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.

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

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

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

Enchant creature card in a graveyard

When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

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.

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.)

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)

Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add {B}.

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

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.

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Threshold -- Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Carrion Feeder can't block.

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

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.

Imprint -- When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.

{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add {C}{C}.

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

Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Enchant creature card in a graveyard

When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

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

Spell mastery -- If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.

{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

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

Exile target creature.

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

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

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

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

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

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.

{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Gravecrawler can't block.

You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

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.

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

Spells cost {1} less to cast.

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

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

Cumulative upkeep--Pay {B} and 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.)

If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type.

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

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

{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.

If Lake of the Dead would enter the battlefield, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you may pay {B}{B}. If you do, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.

{B}{B}: Return Leshrac's Sigil to its owner's hand.

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

Equip {0}

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

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

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault.

At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

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

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

Choose one --

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

• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

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.

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

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Flash

You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.

While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Peat Bog enters the battlefield tapped with two depletion counters on it.

{T}, Remove a depletion counter from Peat Bog: Add {B}{B}. If there are no depletion counters on Peat Bog, sacrifice it.

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add {B}."

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

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

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Deathtouch

Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.

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

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Flying

Discard a card: Add {B}.

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}.

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

Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

({T}: Add {B}.)

Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

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.)

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 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.)

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

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

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

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

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

I -- Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."

II -- Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"

III -- Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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

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

Deathtouch

When Vile Entomber enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

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.

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.

If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.