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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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

Kicker--Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)

Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Lifelink

When Bloodline Necromancer enters the battlefield, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Flying

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

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.

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

{T}: Add {B}.

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.

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.

Flying

Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

{T}: Add {C}.

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

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.

When Champion of Dusk enters the battlefield, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.

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.

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}.

Crypt of Agadeem enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

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

Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Flying

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

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

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

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

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

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

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, choose one --

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Exile target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Choose one --

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

• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

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.

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

When Gatekeeper of Malakir enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature.

Deathtouch, lifelink

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

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.)

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

({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.

Lifelink

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

{2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

When Massacre Wurm enters the battlefield, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.

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

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped.

When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

{T}: Add {B}.

Lifelink

When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

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Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

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

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

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

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

Nyx Lotus enters the battlefield tapped.

{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.

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

As Prism Ring enters the battlefield, choose a color.

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

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

{T}: Add {C}.

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

Flying

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

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

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

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.

Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.

Equip {1}

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

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

+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.

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.

-2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink.

-7: Sorin the Mirthless deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

+1: Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. If it's a Vampire, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

+1: You may sacrifice a Vampire. When you do, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

-3: You may put a Vampire creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

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Channel -- {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

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

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

Flying

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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

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

Draw two cards.

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

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

Exile target creature or planeswalker. 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.

Creatures you control have lifelink.

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.