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.

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}

Feast of Sanity

Whenever you discard a card, Feast of Sanity deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Duskwielder

Boast — {1}: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Leech Gauntlet

Lifelink
Equipped creature has lifelink.
Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

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."

Roadside Reliquary

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Roadside Reliquary: Draw a card if you control an artifact. Draw a card if you control an enchantment.

Vampire Scrivener

Flying
Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.
Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.

Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Tavern Swindler

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

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.

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.

Infernal Sovereign

Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Mind Stone

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

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.

Charcoal Diamond

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

Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Skirge Familiar

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, 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.)

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.)

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.

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.

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}.

Swamp

Cabal Ritual

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

Black Market

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

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.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Deadly Tempest

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

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.

Bontu the Glorified

Menace, indestructible
Bontu the Glorified can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

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.

Sanguine Bond

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

Sol Ring

Reliquary Tower

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

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Thran Dynamo

Arcane Signet

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

Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.

Dread Cacodemon

When Dread Cacodemon enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all creatures your opponents control, then tap all other creatures you control.

Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 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}.'"

Promising Vein

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

You Are Already Dead

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card.

Dread Presence

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

Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.
{B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards.
{B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

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.

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.

Consume Spirit

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

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.

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Dark Ritual

Exsanguinate

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

Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters the battlefield, 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.

Rug of Smothering

Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Geode Golem

Trample
Whenever Geode Golem deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)

Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Manalith

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.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.

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.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

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