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.

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.

{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.

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)

{T}: Add {B}.

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

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.

({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.

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

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

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.

{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.

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {B}.

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}.

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

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

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Buyback--Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

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.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard.

Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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.

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

{B}: Evolved Sleeper becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.

{1}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.

{1}{B}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

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

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

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.

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.

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Secrets of the Soul -- {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Flying, trample

Skip your draw step.

Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

({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.

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.

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

+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}.'"

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.

March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

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.

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.

{T}: Add {C}.

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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

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

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.

{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Flying

{B}: Pestilence Demon deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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

{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.)

Choose two --

• Target player loses X life.

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

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

• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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

Flying

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

Flying

When Rune-Scarred Demon enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Flying

Discard a card: Add {B}.

{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.

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

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

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Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Equip {1}

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)

I -- Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

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

III -- Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

You have no maximum hand size.

{T}: Add {C}.

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return Undead Gladiator from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.)

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.