The Cruelty of Gix

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.

Swamp

Sol Ring

Profane Transfusion

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.

Starving Revenant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Starscream, Seeker Leader

Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.)
Flying, menace, haste
Whenever Starscream deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, that player becomes the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, convert Starscream.

Starscream, Power Hungry

More Than Meets the Eye {2}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{B}.)
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, if you're the monarch, target opponent loses 2 life.
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, convert Starscream.

Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Snuff Out

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.

Don't Have

Nullpriest of Oblivion

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Lifelink
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sinkhole Surveyor

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you lose 1 life and this creature endures 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token.)

The Speed Demon

Flying, trample
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.

Cabal Coffers

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

Nightshade Stinger

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Decree of Pain

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 this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Rogue's Gloves

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Throne of the High City

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You become the monarch.

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

High-Society Hunter

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, draw a card.

Fell Mire

As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Fell the Profane

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire

Court of Locthwain

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it. If you're the monarch, until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among cards exiled with this enchantment without paying its mana cost.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Gonti, Night Minister

Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.

Lethal Scheme

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Etherium Pteramander

Flying
This creature can block only creatures with flying.
{6}{B}: Adapt 4. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each other artifact you control. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Witch-king of Angmar

Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Eye Collector

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player mills a card. (Each player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Avishkar Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{T}: Add {C}.
Max speed — {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Faerie Dreamthief

Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Gingerbrute

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
{1}: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.

Body Launderer

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, this creature connives.
When this creature dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Urborg Scavengers

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile target card from a graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
This creature has flying as long as a card exiled with it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Court of Ambition

When this enchantment enters, 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.

March of Wretched Sorrow

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.

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

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.

War Room

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

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Rogue's Passage

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

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Dark Ritual

Pact Weapon

As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant

Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose flying or indestructible at random. Blitzwing gains that ability until end of turn.
Whenever Blitzwing deals combat damage to a player, convert it.

Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor

More Than Meets the Eye {3}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {3}{B}.)
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. If no life is lost this way, convert Blitzwing.

Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant

Getting

Requiem Monolith

{T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you draw that many cards and lose that much life." That creature's controller may have this artifact deal 1 damage to it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Espers to Magicite

Exile each opponent's graveyard. When you do, choose up to one target creature card exiled this way. Create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an artifact and it loses all other card types.

Have

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, 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.)

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Muraganda Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{T}: Add {C}.
Max speed — {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: 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.

Nighthawk Scavenger

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

Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Deathtouch
Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Thought Vessel

Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Peer into the Abyss

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

Cut of the Profits

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Vault Skirge

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Crypt Ghast

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}.

Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Hagra Broodpit

Hagra Mauling

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Ritual Chamber

When you unlock this door, create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Unholy Annex

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. If you control a Demon, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Otherwise, you lose 2 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)

Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber

Nightmare Shepherd

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Necrodominance

Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Elegy Acolyte

Lifelink
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Void — At the beginning of your end step, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, create a 2/2 colorless Robot artifact creature token.

Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.

Invoke Despair

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

Tormented Soul

This creature can't block and can't be blocked.

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Lost Vale

(Transforms from Dowsing Dagger.)
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Dowsing Dagger

When this Equipment enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform this Equipment.
Equip {2}

Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale

Pain's Reward

Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.

Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Zenith Chronicler

Whenever a player casts their first multicolored spell each turn, each other player draws a card.

Stirge

Flying
This creature can't block.
Blood Drain — {1}{B}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Hunted Horror

Trample
When this creature enters, target opponent creates two 3/3 green Centaur creature tokens with protection from black.