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.
{1}{B}
Agonizing Remorse
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it or a card from their graveyard. Exile that card. You lose 1 life.
{B}
Alchemist's Gift
Instant
Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains your choice of deathtouch or lifelink until end of turn. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)
{W}
Angel's Grace
Instant
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.
{1}{W}{B}
Anguished Unmaking
Instant
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
{1}{B}
Arguel's Blood Fast
Legendary Enchantment
{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.
--
Temple of Aclazotz
Legendary Land
(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
{W}{W}
Auriok Champion
Creature - Human Cleric
Protection from black and from red
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.
1 /
1
{W}
Authority of the Consuls
Enchantment
Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.
{1}{B}
Blood Artist
Creature - Vampire
Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
0 /
1
{B}
Blood Celebrant
Creature - Human Cleric
{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
1 /
1
{3}{B}
Bloodtracker
Creature - Vampire Wizard
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.
2 /
2
{3}{B}{B}{B}
Bolas's Citadel
Legendary Artifact
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.
{3}
Bontu's Monument
Legendary Artifact
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.
--
Castle Locthwain
Land
Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
{3}
Chalice of Life
Artifact
{T}: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.
--
Chalice of Death
Artifact
{T}: Target player loses 5 life.
{W}
Condemn
Instant
Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.
{4}
Cosmos Elixir
Artifact
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.
{2}{B}{B}
Court of Ambition
Enchantment
When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.
{3}{W}
Cradle of Vitality
Enchantment
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.
{3}{B}
Crypt Ghast
Creature - Spirit
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}.
2 /
2
{1}{B}
Dark Confidant
Creature - Human Wizard
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.
2 /
1
{5}{B}{B}
Defiant Bloodlord
Creature - Vampire
Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
4 /
5
{1}{B/P}{B/P}
Dismember
Instant
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
{2}{B}
Duskfang Mentor
Creature - Human Cleric
When Duskfang Mentor enters the battlefield, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control.
{1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.
1 /
3
{2}{W}{B}
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature - Vampire Knight
Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.
1 /
1
{2}{B}{B}
Eradicator Valkyrie
Creature - Angel Berserker
Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers
Boast -- {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
4 /
3
{X}{B}
Erebos's Intervention
Instant
Choose one --
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.
{3}{B}
Erebos, God of the Dead
Legendary Enchantment Creature - God
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.
5 /
7
{4}{B}
Exquisite Blood
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
{1}{B}
Feed the Swarm
Sorcery
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
{B}
Font of Agonies
Enchantment
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.
{3}{W}{W}
Fumigate
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
{B}{B}
Geth's Verdict
Instant
Target player sacrifices a creature and loses 1 life.
{2}{W}
Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Legendary Enchantment Creature - God
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.
5 /
5
{6}{W}{W}{W}
Heroes Remembered
Sorcery
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.)
{3}{B}{B}
Indulgent Tormentor
Creature - Demon
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.
5 /
3
{2}{W}
Invoke the Divine
Instant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.
{4}{B/P}{B/P}{B/P}
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Horror Minion
({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.
2 /
2
{1}{W}{B}
Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
2 /
3
--
Karn's Bastion
Land
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
{W}{W}{B}{B}
Kaya's Wrath
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.
{3}{B}{B}{B}
Lich's Mastery
Legendary Enchantment
Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
{2}{W}{W}{B}
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
Legendary Creature - Angel
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.
5 /
5
--
Mana Confluence
Land
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
{2}{B}
Marauding Blight-Priest
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
3 /
2
{1}{B}{B}{ // }{1}{B}{B}
Murderous Rider // Swift End
Creature - Zombie Knight // Instant - Adventure
Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
2 /
3
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
--
Plains
Basic Land - Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
{3}
Quietus Spike
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}
{2}{B}
Read the Bones
Sorcery
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.
{3}{W}
Rhox Faithmender
Creature - Rhino Monk
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.
1 /
5
{3}{B}{B}
Sanguine Bond
Enchantment
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
--
Scoured Barrens
Land
Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield tapped.
When Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{B}
Scourge of the Skyclaves
Creature - Demon
Kicker {4}{B}
When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up.
Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players.
* /
*
{B}{B}
Sign in Blood
Sorcery
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
--
Silent Clearing
Land
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.
{3}{B}
Snuff Out
Instant
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.
{3}{B}{B}{B}
Sorin Markov
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
+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.
L:
4
{2}{W}{B}
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
+1: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
-2: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0."
-6: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.
L:
3
{W}
Speaker of the Heavens
Creature - Human Cleric
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.
1 /
1
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
--
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
{3}
Sword of Light and Shadow
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Equip {2}
{W}
Swords to Plowshares
Instant
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
{B}
Thoughtseize
Sorcery
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
{2}
Throne of the God-Pharaoh
Legendary Artifact
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.
{B}
Thrull Parasite
Creature - Thrull
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.
1 /
1
{X}{B}{B}
Torment of Hailfire
Sorcery
Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.
{2}{B}
Toxic Deluge
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
{2}{B}{B}
Twilight Prophet
Creature - Vampire Cleric
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.
2 /
4
{4}{B}{B}
Undercity Plague
Sorcery
Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
--
Vault of the Archangel
Land
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
{2}{B}
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
1 /
3
{3}{W}{B}
Vona, Butcher of Magan
Legendary Creature - Vampire Knight
Vigilance, lifelink
{T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.
4 /
4
{4}
Well of Lost Dreams
Artifact
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.
{2}{B}{B}
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)