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.

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

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.

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.

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.)

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

Flying

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

Flying

If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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.

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

{T}: Add {C}.

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

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.

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

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

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

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Flying

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

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.

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Your opponents can't gain life.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flying

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

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

-3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

-6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Hexproof

Lotus Field enters the battlefield tapped.

When Lotus Field enters the battlefield, sacrifice two lands.

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Menace

Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

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.

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.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

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

Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on Nightshade Harvester.

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

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

{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.)

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.)

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

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

Trample

Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.

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

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.)

Flying, trample

Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Flying

When Reiver Demon enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

{T}: Add {C}.

{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

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

{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.

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.

Deathtouch

Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.

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

{T}: Add {B}.

{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Flying

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

{B}: Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon gains haste until end of turn.

{B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

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When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.

Take an extra turn after this one.

Deathtouch

{B}, Reveal Tetzimoc, Primal Death from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.

When Tetzimoc enters the battlefield, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

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.

Indestructible

When The One Ring enters the battlefield, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.

{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

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

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

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

Deathtouch

Boast -- {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

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.

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.

{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Equip {B}{B}

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.