Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Sickening Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

Blood Celebrant

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

Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Chainer's Torment

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Chainer's Torment deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
III — Create an X/X black Nightmare Horror creature token, where X is half your life total, rounded up. It deals X damage to you.

Star Compass

Star Compass enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

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.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Gonti's Machinations

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get {E}. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay {E}{E}, Sacrifice Gonti's Machinations: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Strata Scythe

Imprint — When Strata Scythe enters, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
Equip {3}

Ur-Golem's Eye

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Extinguish All Hope

Soul Conduit

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

Phyresis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Repay in Kind

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

Lich's Mirror

If you would lose the game, instead shuffle your hand, your graveyard, and all permanents you own into your library, then draw seven cards and your life total becomes 20.

Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.
Counter target spell.

Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Each other player loses X life.

Carrion Howler

Pay 1 life: Carrion Howler gets +2/-1 until end of turn.

Murderous Betrayal

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

Necrologia

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

Phyrexian Lens

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

Bubbling Muck

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

Jade Monolith

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Wand of Denial

{T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. If it's a nonland card, you may pay 2 life. If you do, put it into that player's graveyard.

Lurking Evil

Pay half your life, rounded up: Lurking Evil becomes a 4/4 Phyrexian Horror creature with flying.

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.

Minion of the Wastes

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

Gallowbraid

Trample
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 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.)

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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.

Moonlight Bargain

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.

Ritual of Soot

Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.

Perish

Destroy all green creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Soul-Guide Lantern

When Soul-Guide Lantern enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Draw a card.

Netherborn Altar

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

Bonder's Ornament

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}: Each player who controls a permanent named Bonder's Ornament draws a card.

Pestilent Haze

Choose one —
• All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Remove two loyalty counters from each planeswalker.

Guardian Idol

Guardian Idol enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}: Guardian Idol becomes a 2/2 Golem artifact creature until end of turn.

Sisay's Ring

Prismatic Lens

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

Everflowing Chalice

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

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Burnished Hart

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

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Feed the Swarm

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

Charcoal Diamond

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

Swamp

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

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, Famine Incarnate enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Dark Ritual

Hero's Downfall

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: Wall of Blood gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sinister Concoction

{B}, Pay 1 life, Mill a card, Discard a card, Sacrifice Sinister Concoction: Destroy target creature.

Stromgald Cabal

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

Westvale Abbey

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform Westvale Abbey, then untap it.

Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Agadeem, the Undercrypt

As Agadeem, the Undercrypt enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

Blood Operative

Lifelink
When Blood Operative enters, you may exile target card from a graveyard.
Whenever you surveil, if Blood Operative is in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return Blood Operative to your hand.

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, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Tavern Swindler

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

Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.

Carnival of Souls

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

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Mutilate

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

Lich's Tomb

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you lose life, sacrifice a permanent for each 1 life you lost. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Leechridden Swamp

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

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}.

Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Mischievous Poltergeist

Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate Mischievous Poltergeist.

Baneful Omen

At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value.

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.)

Morinfen

Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 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.)

Carnophage

At the beginning of your upkeep, tap Carnophage unless you pay 1 life.

Heirloom Mirror

{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life, Discard a card: Draw a card, mill a card, then put a ritual counter on Heirloom Mirror. Then if it has three or more ritual counters on it, remove them and transform it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Inherited Fiend

Flying
{2}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on Inherited Fiend.

Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend

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.

Sol Ring

Demonic Embrace

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

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

Indulgent Tormentor

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Needlebite Trap

If an opponent gained life this turn, you may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Nihilistic Glee

{2}{B}, Discard a card: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Hellbent — {1}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Rhystic Syphon

Unless target player pays {3}, that player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Shadowgrange Archfiend

When Shadowgrange Archfiend 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.)

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Drown in Sorrow

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Pelakka Predation

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 3 or greater. That player discards that card.

Pelakka Caverns

Pelakka Caverns enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Pelakka Predation // Pelakka Caverns

Hagra Mauling

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.

Hagra Broodpit

Hagra Broodpit enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

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