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Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (akh) 78
Archfiend of Spite

Flying Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to this creature, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice. Madness {3}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Archfiend of Spite (c19) 14
Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Asylum Visitor (c19) 103
Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15
Call to the Netherworld

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Call to the Netherworld (c19) 108
Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
Feast of Sanity

Whenever you discard a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Feast of Sanity (mh2) 84
From Under the Floorboards

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sorcery
From Under the Floorboards (c19) 113
Gibbering Descent

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life and discards a card. Hellbent — Skip your upkeep step if you have no cards in hand. Madness {2}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Gibbering Descent (fut) 66
Grave Scrabbler

Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) When this creature enters, if its madness cost was paid, you may return target creature card from a graveyard to its owner's hand.

Creature
Grave Scrabbler (tsr) 118
Headless Specter

Flying Hellbent — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you have no cards in hand, that player discards a card at random.

Creature
Headless Specter (mh1) 95
Muck Drubb

Flash When this creature enters, change the target of target spell that targets only a single creature to this creature. Madness {2}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Muck Drubb (tsr) 126
Necrogoyf

Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card. Madness {1}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Necrogoyf (mh2) 93
Shadowgrange Archfiend

When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way. Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Shadowgrange Archfiend (voc) 22
Strength of Lunacy

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has protection from white. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Strength of Lunacy (tor) 86

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Blood Fountain

When this artifact enters, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {3}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Blood Fountain (vow) 95
Emergency Weld

Return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Sorcery
Emergency Weld (bro) 93
Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (brc) 176
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 (chk) 273
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (brc) 177
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Land
Detection Tower (m19) 249
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this land enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Ifnir Deadlands (hou) 179
Mana Confluence

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

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
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
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Sanctum of Eternity

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

Land
Sanctum of Eternity (c19) 59
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (dmc) 233
Spire of Industry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

Land
Spire of Industry (brc) 203
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmr) 406
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.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper

Untaidake enters tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.

Land
Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper (chk) 285
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
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 (clb) 929
Westvale Abbey

Land
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (soi) 281Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (soi) 281
Witch's Clinic

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

Land
Witch's Clinic (c21) 81

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Ashes to Ashes

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

Sorcery
Ashes to Ashes (5ed) 141
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
Bloodchief's Thirst

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Bloodchief's Thirst (znr) 94
Cast Down

Destroy target nonlegendary creature.

Instant
Cast Down (clb) 119
Cut Down

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Instant
Cut Down (dmu) 89
Eat to Extinction

Exile target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Instant
Eat to Extinction (thb) 90
Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less. Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.

Instant
Fatal Push (2xm) 93
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 (scd) 77
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
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (bro) 102
Grisly Sigil

Casualty 1 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Choose target creature or planeswalker. If it was dealt noncombat damage this turn, Grisly Sigil deals 3 damage to it and you gain 3 life. Otherwise, Grisly Sigil deals 1 damage to it and you gain 1 life.

Sorcery
Grisly Sigil (snc) 82
Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
Murderous Rider

Creature
Murderous Rider // Swift End (eld) 97
Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Instant
Power Word Kill (afr) 114
Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Instant
Reckless Spite (c21) 151
Sever the Bloodline

Exile target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature. Flashback {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sever the Bloodline (ncc) 259

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Cling to Dust

Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card. Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Instant
Cling to Dust (thb) 87
Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (plst) JMP-231
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 (scd) 80
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

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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
Arco-Flagellant

Squad {2} (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay {2} any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) This creature can't block. Endurant — Pay 3 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Arco-Flagellant (40k) 29
Blood Clock

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand unless they pay 2 life.

Artifact
Blood Clock (plst) SOK-153
Bolas's Citadel

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.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Defiler of Flesh

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Creature
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Dusk Mangler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life. When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

Creature
Dusk Mangler (clb) 751
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (thb) 93
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.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Glass-Cast Heart

Whenever one or more Vampires you control attack, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink. {B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact and thirteen Blood tokens: Each opponent loses 13 life and you gain 13 life.

Artifact
Glass-Cast Heart (voc) 18
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
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 (plst) C19-18
Lorcan, Warlock Collector

Flying Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may pay life equal to its mana value. If you do, put it onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Warlock in addition to its other types. If a Warlock you control would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Lorcan, Warlock Collector (afc) 27
Marshland Bloodcaster

Flying {1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

Creature
Marshland Bloodcaster (c21) 43
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 (mid) 111
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.

Creature
Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion (neo) 114
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Tavern Swindler

{T}, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.

Creature
Tavern Swindler (snc) 96
The Cauldron of Eternity

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library. {2}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
The Cauldron of Eternity (eld) 82
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 (gtc) 81
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 (m20) 122

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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 (dmc) 179
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 (c14) 139
Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Environmental Sciences (stx) 1

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