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Velvet Thunder
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Est deck cost: $547.18
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Commander

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Nazar, the Velvet Fang

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you gain life, put a feeding counter on Nazar. Whenever Nazar attacks, you may remove three feeding counters from it. If you do, you draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Creature
Nazar, the Velvet Fang (j25) 43

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Interaction

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Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X. Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Sorcery
Consume Spirit (plst) DDC-56
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.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Drain Life

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Sorcery
Drain Life (5ed) 156
Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (dsc) 78
Imp's Mischief

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

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsr) 144
Tendrils of Corruption

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

Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (tsr) 145

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Creature

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Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Bloodthirsty Conqueror

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
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) 95
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.

Creature
High-Society Hunter (fdn) 61
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Pontiff of Blight

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.)

Creature
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Preacher of the Schism

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Preacher of the Schism (lci) 113
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
Vein Ripper

Flying Ward—Sacrifice a creature. Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110
Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151
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 (j25) 71
Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
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 (ppro) 2022-3
Phyrexian Tower

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

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (who) 296
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 286
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Westvale Abbey

Land
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 474Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 474
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first 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 is every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Crossway Troublemakers

Attacking Vampires you control have deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by those creatures also causes their controller to gain that much life.) Whenever a Vampire you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Crossway Troublemakers (j25) 417
Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (j25) 114
Darkstar Augur

Offspring {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Darkstar Augur (blb) 90
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
Necrologia

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

Instant
Necrologia (plst) 7ED-149
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
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.

Creature
Starving Revenant (lci) 123
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (scd) 116
Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (ltc) 291

Draw

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Lifegain

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Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Corrupt (bro) 88
Creeping Bloodsucker

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

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Crypt Incursion (ltc) 198
Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Deathgreeter (plst) DDD-33
Demon's Horn

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

Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (j25) 441
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.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Kamber, the Plunderer

Partner with Laurine, the Diversion (When this creature enters, target player may put Laurine into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Lifelink Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life and create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Kamber, the Plunderer (otc) 137
Prism Ring

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Prism Ring (ori) 235
Sanctum Seeker

Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sanctum Seeker (j25) 485
Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sanguine Syphoner (fdn) 68
Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.) Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Staff of the Death Magus (m15) 232
Thrull Parasite

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.) {T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Creature
Thrull Parasite (plst) GTC-81

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Enchantment

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Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208

Enchantment

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Ramp

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Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
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) 70
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Magus of the Coffers

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

Creature
Magus of the Coffers (c14) 148
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28

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Maybeboard

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Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Diamond Mare

As this creature enters, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Diamond Mare (plst) M19-231
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (j25) 435
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) 274
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (j25) 122

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