Drain Life

Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Kari Zev's Expertise

Gain control of target creature or Vehicle until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.
You may cast a spell with mana value 2 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Act of Treason

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

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.

Platinum Angel

Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Lich's Mastery

Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

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.)

Repay in Kind

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

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.

Greed

Exsanguinate

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

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

Pinnacle Monk

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When Pinnacle Monk enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mystic Peak

As Mystic Peak enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak

Feed the Swarm

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

Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

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.)

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.

Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Blood Celebrant

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

Wall of Blood

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

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.)

Stormfist Crusader

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Arcane Signet

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

Immolating Souleater

{R/P}: Immolating Souleater gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

Sol Ring

Fell the Profane

Fell Mire

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

Fell the Profane // Fell Mire

Fire Covenant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Vampiric Tutor

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

Bitter Triumph

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

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+ {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Toxic Deluge

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

Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Jaya's Immolating Inferno

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.

Rakdos Signet

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.

Boggart Trawler

When Boggart Trawler enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Boggart Bog

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

Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog

Bloodsoaked Insight

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Sanguine Morass

Sanguine Morass enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass

Jeska's Will

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

Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

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.)

Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Mountain

Mischievous Poltergeist

Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate Mischievous Poltergeist.

Deepwood Ghoul

Commune with Lava

Exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

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.)

Storm King's Thunder

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell X times. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Barbarian Ring

{T}: Add {R}. Barbarian Ring deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {R}, {T}, Sacrifice Barbarian Ring: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Cabal Pit

{T}: Add {B}. Cabal Pit deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice Cabal Pit: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

War Room

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

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain 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.

Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
{T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
{T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
{5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Lightning Greaves

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

Swamp

Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To 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.)

Phyrexian Arena

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

Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Imp's Mischief

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

Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Command Tower

Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju, Who Shelters All 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.

Souldrinker

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

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Dark Ritual

Rowan, Scion of War

Menace
{T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

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