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.

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

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.

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

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.

Choose two --

• Destroy all artifacts.

• Destroy all enchantments.

• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.

• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

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.

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.

{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.

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

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

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

You may play lands from your graveyard.

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}.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

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

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

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.

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.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.

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.

Menace

{1}{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token.

{2}{B}: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If mana from a Treasure was spent to activate this ability, that creature also gains deathtouch until end of turn.

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

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage target permanent would deal.

0: Until end of turn, Gideon of the Trials becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.

0: You get an emblem with "As long as you control a Gideon planeswalker, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."

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.

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

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

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

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and 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 a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

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

Equip {0}

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.

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

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

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.

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

({T}: Add {W}.)

{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.)

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.

Flying, trample

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

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

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

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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.

{W}, Pay 2 life: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

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

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

{B}, Pay 1 life, Mill a card, Discard a card, Sacrifice Sinister Concoction: Destroy target creature.

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

Snowfield Sinkhole enters the battlefield tapped.

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

+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.

Enchant creature

{B}, Pay 1 life: Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate no more than three times each turn.

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

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

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

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Cycling--Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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

Sunlit Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.

({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 target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

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

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

Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped.

When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1.

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

{T}: Add {C}.

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

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

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

Enchant land

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

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

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

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

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.

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.

Vigilance, lifelink

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

{T}: Add {C}.

{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.