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Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
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Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way. When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Creature
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate (dom) 108

Commander

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Big Mana

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Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature Artifact
Illuminor Szeras (40k) 37
Ruthless Technomancer

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power. {2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

Creature
Ruthless Technomancer (j25) 484
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.

Instant
Sacrifice (spg) 69
Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60b

Big Mana

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Board Wipe

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Tegwyll's Scouring

You may cast this spell as though it had flash by tapping three untapped creatures you control with flying in addition to paying its other costs. Destroy all creatures. Create three 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying.

Sorcery
Tegwyll's Scouring (woc) 16
Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Board Wipe

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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 has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
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 (rvr) 71
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
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
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 (cmm) 868
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
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 Curiosity

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw cards equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.

Sorcery
Morbid Curiosity (bbd) 149
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 99
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (blc) 188
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 146
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
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

Draw

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General Synergy

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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 (pwar) 79
Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110
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
Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (plst) C15-133
Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmm) 188
Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Vat of Rebirth (one) 113
Xathrid Demon

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature, then each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. If you can't sacrifice a creature, tap this creature and you lose 7 life.

Creature
Xathrid Demon (c14) 170

General Synergy

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (hop) 132
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Myriad Landscape

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

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 282
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (2xm) 327
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (plc) 165
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
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 (dsc) 325

Land

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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 (znc) 106
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (plst) WWK-123
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (znc) 114
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (blc) 281
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pfdn) 1
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 (fdn) 257
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414

Ramp

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Removal

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Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Curtains' Call

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Destroy two target creatures.

Instant
Curtains' Call (otc) 130
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
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
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
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Slaughter

Buyback—Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Slaughter (exo) 74
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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Sac Fodder

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Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred
Bitterblossom (wot) 27
Carrion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 0/1 black Insect creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant
Carrion (mir) 111
Chittering Witch

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have. {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Chittering Witch (blc) 180
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Creature
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (cmm) 155
Ghoulcaller Gisa

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Ghoulcaller Gisa (cmm) 161
Ghoulish Procession

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Enchantment
Ghoulish Procession (mid) 102
Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Nightmare Shepherd

Flying Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Creature Enchantment
Nightmare Shepherd (dsc) 149
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Sengir Autocrat

When this creature enters, create three 0/1 black Serf creature tokens. When this creature leaves the battlefield, exile all Serf tokens.

Creature
Sengir Autocrat (plst) EMA-105
Weaponcraft Enthusiast

Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)

Creature
Weaponcraft Enthusiast (plst) KLD-105

Sac Fodder

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Shenanigans

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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
Eternity Vessel

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Eternity Vessel (zen) 200
Repay in Kind

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

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Stunning Reversal

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1. Exile Stunning Reversal.

Instant
Stunning Reversal (bbd) 51
The Golden Throne

Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1. A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

Artifact
The Golden Throne (40k) 157
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

Shenanigans

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Sideboard

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Abhorrent Overlord

Flying When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Abhorrent Overlord (ths) 75
Altar of Bhaal

Artifact
Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering (clb) 109
Arguel's Blood Fast

Enchantment
Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90
Big Game Hunter

When this creature enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated. 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.)

Creature
Big Game Hunter (tsr) 102
Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (plst) CM2-178
Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

Enchantment
Carnival of Souls (uds) 55
Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (mkm) 80
Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
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
Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123
Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Dark Prophecy (m14) 93
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 (c17) 111
Demonic Embrace

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types. You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Enchantment
Demonic Embrace (m21) 95
Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (cmm) 866
Eater of Hope

Flying {B}, Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate this creature. {2}{B}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Destroy target creature.

Creature
Eater of Hope (mic) 115
Fleshwrither

Transfigure {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a creature card with the same mana value as this creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Transfigure only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fleshwrither (fut) 84
Fungal Fortitude

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Fungal Fortitude (lci) 106
Garza's Assassin

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature. Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Creature
Garza's Assassin (csp) 57
Grave Titan

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature
Grave Titan (mkc) 129
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (plst) ZNR-106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (plst) ZNR-106
Into the Pit

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast spells from the top of your library by sacrificing a nonland permanent in addition to paying their other costs.

Enchantment
Into the Pit (dsc) 20
Lethal Scheme

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Instant
Lethal Scheme (lcc) 201
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (fdn) 176
Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Magus of the Mirror (cns) 117
Minion of the Wastes

Trample As this creature enters, pay any amount of life. Minion of the Wastes's power and toughness are each equal to the life paid as it entered.

Creature
Minion of the Wastes (tmp) 146
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch

Flying Primarch of the Death Guard — At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.

Creature
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch (40k) 41
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
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
Necrotic Hex

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Necrotic Hex (scd) 95
Netherborn Altar

{T}, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Netherborn Altar (plst) C20-45
Nowhere to Run

Flash When this enchantment 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.

Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
Pain's Reward

Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.

Sorcery
Pain's Reward (sok) 85
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (j25) 476
Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

Sorcery
Plague of Vermin (shm) 73
Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Promise of Power

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Promise of Power (plst) DDC-54
Prowling Geistcatcher

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile it. If that creature was a token, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return each card exiled with it to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Prowling Geistcatcher (mic) 21
Rite of Belzenlok

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Create two 0/1 black Cleric creature tokens. III — Create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying, trample, and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another creature. If you can't, this token deals 6 damage to you."

Enchantment
Rite of Belzenlok (dom) 102
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c17) 124
Severed Strands

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Sorcery
Severed Strands (2x2) 88
Soul Conduit

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

Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
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
Tome of Legends

This artifact enters with a page counter on it. Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact. {1}, {T}, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Tome of Legends (mkc) 246
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 (plst) 5DN-165
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

Sideboard

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Better Sac Package?

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Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Chthonian Nightmare (mh3) 83
Corpse Augur

When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

Creature
Corpse Augur (cmm) 145
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on this artifact. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on this artifact. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (mic) 17
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Dawn of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Dawn of the Dead (tor) 59
Fell Beast of Mordor

Flying Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Fell Beast of Mordor (ltc) 513
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.

Creature
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker (ltc) 428
Infestation Sage

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token with flying.

Creature
Infestation Sage (fdn) 64
Lazotep Reaver

When this creature enters, amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Creature
Lazotep Reaver (scd) 83
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Nested Shambler

When this creature dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Nested Shambler (blc) 185
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (plst) ROE-122
Reaper from the Abyss

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

Creature
Reaper from the Abyss (j25) 480
Rescue from the Underworld

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card and the sacrificed card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of your next upkeep. Exile Rescue from the Underworld.

Instant
Rescue from the Underworld (plst) THS-102
Revenge of the Rats

Create a tapped 1/1 black Rat creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Revenge of the Rats (fdn) 67
Wriggling Grub

When this creature dies, create two 1/1 black and green Worm creature tokens.

Creature
Wriggling Grub (j25) 12

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Barren Moor

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

Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Untap target land.

Land
Deserted Temple (ody) 320
Fountainport

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card. {3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token. {4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

Land
Fountainport (blb) 253
Hostile Hostel

Land
Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn (mid) 264Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn (mid) 264
Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Memorial to Folly (c20) 288
Petrified Field

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

Land
Petrified Field (ody) 323
Polluted Mire

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

Land
Polluted Mire (dmr) 253
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (plst) C14-313
Vesuva

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Land
Vesuva (m3c) 404
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 (mkc) 310

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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
Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
Bismuth Mindrender

Devoid (This card has no color.) Menace Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast that card by paying life equal to the spell's mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Creature
Bismuth Mindrender (m3c) 51
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 (clb) 739
Bloodtracker

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Bloodtracker (lcc) 186
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
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
Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Creature
Chainer, Dementia Master (cmm) 144
Cloudkill

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Sorcery
Cloudkill (clb) 121
Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Cramped Vents

Enchantment
Cramped Vents // Access Maze (dsc) 17
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Demon of Death's Gate

You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Flying, trample

Creature
Demon of Death's Gate (plst) M11-92
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
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 (m20) 96
Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 656
Gauntlet of Power

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact
Gauntlet of Power (tsp) 255
Infernal Contract

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Infernal Contract (7ed) 143
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Instant
Insidious Dreams (tor) 66
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Lifelink If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

Creature
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet (plst) OGW-86
Kuro, Pitlord

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro unless you pay {B}{B}{B}{B}. Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Kuro, Pitlord (dvd) 44
Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature
Liliana's Standard Bearer (moc) 255
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 (otc) 139
Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (dsc) 148
Murderous Betrayal

{B}{B}, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Enchantment
Murderous Betrayal (8ed) 147
Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadier. When Nadier leaves the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to its power. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel (cmr) 135
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 (bbd) 150
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (ncc) 254
Phyrexian Colossus

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Pay 8 life: Untap this creature. This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Colossus (plst) USG-305
Phyrexian Processor

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Artifact
Phyrexian Processor (dde) 29
Plunge into Darkness

Choose one — • Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way. • Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest. Entwine {B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Plunge into Darkness (5dn) 57
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (j25) 481
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.

Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120
Rise of the Dread Marn

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn. Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Rise of the Dread Marn (khm) 107
Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Rite of Consumption (shm) 76
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 (blc) 113
Simulacrum

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Simulacrum (4ed) 161
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
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
Szat's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power. • Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.

Instant
Szat's Will (cmr) 152
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
The Meep

Ward—Pay 3 life. Whenever The Meep attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature
The Meep (sld) 1581
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 (rix) 88
Unholy Annex

Enchantment
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (dsk) 118
Unspeakable Symbol

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

Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (plst) SCG-79
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278

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Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 243
Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Hand of Vecna (afr) 246
The Book of Vile Darkness

At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {T}, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

Artifact
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91

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