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Pain and Misery (But Not for Me)
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Commander

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Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying Ward—Pay 2 life. Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card.

Creature
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls (dsc) 6

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Drain

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (dsc) 131
Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Blood Seeker (dsc) 77
Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature Enchantment
Fate Unraveler (dsc) 141
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 (dsc) 142
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158

Drain

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Pingers

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Kederekt Parasite

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.

Creature
Kederekt Parasite (dsc) 144
Nightshade Harvester

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Nightshade Harvester (dsc) 150

Pingers

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Removal

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (dsc) 241
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (sld) 1756
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
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (dsc) 162
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (sld) 1754
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.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (dsc) 136
Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Disrupt Decorum (cmm) 1067
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
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (dsc) 147
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (dsc) 225
Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Creature Enchantment
Mogis, God of Slaughter (dsc) 89
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant
Saw in Half (sld) 1755
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (sld) 1757
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Burn

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Fear of Burning Alive

When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each opponent. Delirium — Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature deals that amount of damage to target creature that player controls.

Creature Enchantment
Fear of Burning Alive (dsk) 135
Gleeful Arsonist

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage equal to its power to that player. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Gleeful Arsonist (dsc) 27
Harsh Mentor

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Creature
Harsh Mentor (dsc) 165
Hearthborn Battler

Haste Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature deals 2 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Hearthborn Battler (blb) 139
Persistent Constrictor

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Persistent Constrictor (dsc) 22
Rampaging Ferocidon

Menace Players can't gain life. Whenever another creature enters, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Creature
Rampaging Ferocidon (dsc) 167
Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature
Razorkin Needlehead (dsk) 153
Roiling Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them. Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player. {R}: Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

Enchantment
Roiling Vortex (znr) 352
Rug of Smothering

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Creature Artifact
Rug of Smothering (clb) 336
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 369
Sunspine Lynx

Players can't gain life. Damage can't be prevented. When this creature enters, it deals damage to each player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Creature
Sunspine Lynx (blb) 155
The Lord of Pain

Menace Your opponents can't gain life. Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Creature
The Lord of Pain (dsc) 3
Tor Wauki the Younger

Reach, lifelink If another source you control would deal noncombat damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Tor Wauki deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature
Tor Wauki the Younger (dmc) 68

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Draw

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Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (dsc) 76
Bloodsoaked Insight

Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252
Florian, Voldaren Scion

First strike At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the total amount of life your opponents lost this turn. Exile one of those cards and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Creature
Florian, Voldaren Scion (dsc) 217
Grab the Prize

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Grab the Prize (dsk) 138
Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Sorcery
Light Up the Stage (dsc) 166
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 (dsc) 145
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (dsc) 148
Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Sin Prodder

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Sin Prodder (soi) 181
Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Spiteful Visions (dsc) 233

Draw

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Protection

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Brash Taunter

Indestructible Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent. {2}{R}, {T}: This creature fights another target creature.

Creature
Brash Taunter (dsc) 161
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (dsc) 93

Protection

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Creature

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Deadpool, Trading Card

As Deadpool enters, you may exchange his text box and another creature's. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life. {3}, Sacrifice this creature: Each other player draws a card.

Creature
Deadpool, Trading Card (sld) 1753

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Finisher

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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 (pdsk) 119p

Finisher

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn. Flying, trample Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Creature
Rakdos, Lord of Riots (dsc) 230
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (dsc) 253
Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on this artifact. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on this artifact. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Artifact
Séance Board (dsc) 40
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (dsc) 254
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

Ramp

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Damage Amplifier

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Twinflame Tyrant

Flying If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage instead.

Creature
Twinflame Tyrant (fdn) 97

Damage Amplifier

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (dsc) 260
Blackcleave Cliffs

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (dsc) 263
Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (dsc) 264
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (dsc) 266
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (dsc) 274
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (dsc) 277
Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Geothermal Bog (dsc) 278
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (dsc) 280
Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped. {B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Land
Leechridden Swamp (dsc) 286
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dsk) 275
Razortrap Gorge

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Razortrap Gorge (dsk) 267
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (dsc) 296
Shivan Gorge

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}, {T}: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Land
Shivan Gorge (dsc) 297
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Spinerock Knoll

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Land
Spinerock Knoll (dsc) 300
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dsc) 301
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 274
Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Peak (dsc) 304
Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (dsc) 310
Temple of the False God

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

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (dsk) 269
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (dsc) 325

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Recursion

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Abyssal Harvester

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Creature
Abyssal Harvester (fdn) 54

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Barbed Wire

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this artifact deals 1 damage to that player. {2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by this artifact this turn.

Artifact
Barbed Wire (mmq) 287
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
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) 139
Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Bolt Bend (plst) WAR-115
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) 92
Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Emberwilde Captain

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever an opponent attacks you while you're the monarch, this creature deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Creature
Emberwilde Captain (cmr) 175
Goblin Sharpshooter

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Goblin Sharpshooter (c13) 111
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Mindcrank

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

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Flying, trample Whenever one or more opponents each lose exactly 1 life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis. Exile the top card of your library. Until your next end step, you may play that card.

Creature
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin (mat) 41
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207
Screaming Nemesis

Haste Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any other target. If a player is dealt damage this way, they can't gain life for the rest of the game.

Creature
Screaming Nemesis (dsk) 157
Spellshock

Whenever a player casts a spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Spellshock (plst) EXO-104
Sulfuric Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Enchantment
Sulfuric Vortex (dmr) 144
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252
Whip of Erebos

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.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

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