Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain 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.

Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar

Commanders you control have menace and deathtouch.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Staff of the Death Magus

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

Sol Ring

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

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.

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.

Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.)

Pristine Talisman

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Cabal Coffers

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

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.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Demon's Horn

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

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Diabolic Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Diamond Mare

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

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."

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.

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.)

Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

Flying
{X}{B}{B}: Target creature gets -0/-X until end of turn and Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Sorin, Ravenous Neonate

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.)
+2: Create a Food token.
−1: Sorin, Ravenous Neonate deals damage equal to the amount of life you gained this turn to any target.
−6: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types. Put a lifelink counter on it if you control a white permanent other than that creature or Sorin.

Sorin of House Markov

Lifelink
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.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, exile Sorin of House Markov, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate

Aetherflux Reservoir

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

Dread Presence

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

Demon of Wailing Agonies

Flying
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Demon of Wailing Agonies gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Demon of Wailing Agonies deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

Reaper from the Abyss

Flying
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

Bubbling Muck

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

Valgavoth's Faithful

{3}{B}, Sacrifice Valgavoth's Faithful: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}

Crypt Incursion

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

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{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.)

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.

Basilica Screecher

Flying
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.)

Bone Shards

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste
When Clackbridge Troll enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap Clackbridge Troll, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

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.

Mudflat Village

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Mudflat Village: Return target Bat, Lizard, Rat, or Squirrel card from your graveyard to your hand.

Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying
Drain Life — When Shard of the Nightbringer enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Vampiric Tutor

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

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}.'"

Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature {1}
Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

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.

Nowhere to Run

Flash
When Nowhere to Run enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Prism Ring

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

Spoils of Blood

Create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.

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.

Gollum, Obsessed Stalker

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Sire of Seven Deaths

First strike, vigilance
Menace, trample
Reach, lifelink
Ward—Pay 7 life.

Swamp

Jet Medallion

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

Rise Again

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {3}

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Consume Spirit

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

Syndicate Enforcer

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.)

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.

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.)

Annihilating Glare

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay {4} or sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.)

Aether Snap

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
−2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.
−8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

Exquisite Blood

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

Magus of the Coffers

Eliminate

Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

War Room

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

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Blood Artist

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

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Have

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.

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.

Ill-Gotten Inheritance

At the beginning of your upkeep, Ill-Gotten Inheritance deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
{5}{B}, Sacrifice Ill-Gotten Inheritance: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

Sanguine Bond

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Hazel's Nocturne

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Demonic Tutor

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

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}.

Launch Party

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Creeping Bloodsucker

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

Black Market

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

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Diabolic Tutor

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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.

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Dark Ritual

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Imp's Mischief

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