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K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({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.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 365

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Planeswalker

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Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead. +1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand. −2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." −7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (woe) 78
Liliana of the Dark Realms

+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}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (blc) 94
Ob Nixilis Reignited

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Destroy target creature. −8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis Reignited (sld) 274
Sorin Markov

+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.

Planeswalker
Sorin Markov (plst) M12-109

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gain life

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Alhammarret's Archive

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.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 426
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (sld) 1798
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, 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.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 355
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j22) 487

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Draw

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Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Instant
Ad Nauseam (2xm) 76
Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
Asmodeus the Archfiend

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 to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Creature
Asmodeus the Archfiend (afr) 373
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Vilis, Broker of Blood

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.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70
Yawgmoth's Bargain

Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Yawgmoth's Bargain (uds) 75

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Protection

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Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Kaya's Ghostform (plst) WAR-94
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 95

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loss of life

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Blood Celebrant

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

Creature
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (dbl) 111
Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice. Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 311
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.

Artifact
Pact Weapon (clb) 576
Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (sld) 1808
Soul Channeling

Enchant creature Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Soul Channeling (mmq) 163
Souldrinker

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

Creature
Souldrinker (plst) TMP-158
Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 358
Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents. If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Creature
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 407

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Finisher

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Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
Liliana's Contract

When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Enchantment
Liliana's Contract (m19) 107
Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Soul Conduit

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
Torment of Hailfire

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

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (sld) 9992

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Ramp

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (sld) 1577
Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (spg) 92
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}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 423
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (slp) 16
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmm) 702
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (mps) 15
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (spg) 17d
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 394
Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (sld) 1316
Skirge Familiar

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

Creature
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 703

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support cards

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Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

Creature Enchantment
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 47
Balthor the Defiled

Minion creatures get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Exile Balthor: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Balthor the Defiled (jud) 61
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.

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Reiver Demon

Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Creature
Reiver Demon (cma) 64
Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch {B}, Reveal this card from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn. When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Creature
Tetzimoc, Primal Death (rix) 86
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 312

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Instant

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Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
Temporal Extortion

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.

Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 313

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Triggers

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Archfiend of Despair

Flying Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Archfiend of Despair (cmm) 503
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 636
Bloodletter of Aclazotz

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

Creature
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 336
Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 390
Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. {1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (wot) 35
Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment
Wound Reflection (shm) 81

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (ltc) 357
Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju enters tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (ltc) 359
Lake of the Dead

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Land
Lake of the Dead (vma) 302
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{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.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 355
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ust) 214
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 252
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m21) 311
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 272
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 273
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 272
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 273
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (neo) 297
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmu) 279
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 237
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 242
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 264
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 269
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ltr) 718
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 289
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mkm) 274
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 274
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (acr) 106
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 274
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 286
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 287
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 274
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (pip) 311
War Room

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

Land
War Room (prm) 86032

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Tutor

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Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 310
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (sld) 1592
Grim Tutor

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

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (spg) 76
Razaketh, the Foulblooded

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

Creature
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 430

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