Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

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

"Approach my tower on bended knee or depart from it as ash upon the wind."
—Gadwick, the Wizened

Command Tower

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

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

"Yawgmoth is dead, and his citadels lie empty. But there will always be some who seek power at any price."
—Karn

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

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

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Plains

Swamp

Sin is debt, and absolution is paid in tithes of gold and blood.

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as evil encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Scrubland

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {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.)

Kabira Crossroads

Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield tapped.
When Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Temple of Silence

Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield tapped.
When Orzhov Basilica enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{B}.

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.

Even as humans regained the upper hand, some still willingly traded their lives for a chance at immortality.

Exquisite Blood

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

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.

The fall of the evening star never heralds a gentle dawn.

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.

Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Sanguine Bond

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

Torture Chamber

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pain counter on Torture Chamber.
At the beginning of your end step, Torture Chamber deals damage to you equal to the number of pain counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove all pain counters from Torture Chamber: It deals damage to target creature equal to the number of pain counters removed this way.

As the sludge below began to shift and take shapes, Gerrard turned from the railing to Orim. "I suppose," he said, "it's a little too late for prayer, isn't it?"

Death Pits of Rath

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes."
—Kerrick, sleeper agent

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"A crafter must imbue her weapon with part of her soul—something the Phyrexians are incapable of doing."
—Melira

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}

For a bittersweet moment, Jace believed he could still save his love. A moment was all Vraska needed. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she whispered.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, Serra Ascendant gets +5/+5 and has flying.

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

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.

"Despite their bravado, mortals are fragile. If Zendikar is to endure, its lords must save it."
—Drana, Kalastria bloodchief

Defiant Bloodlord

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

Some of Orzhov's cruelest collectors remember their debtors by taste alone.

Debt to the Deathless

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

Treasury Thrull

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 Treasury Thrull attacks, you may return target artifact, creature, or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

Bloodlord of Vaasgoth

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.)
Flying
Whenever you cast a Vampire creature spell, it gains bloodthirst 3.

"As the sun sets to make way for dawn, so we turn to darkness to bring about the coming salvation."

Sanguine Sacrament

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

"Drink this, brother. It will bring you rest."
—Liliana Vess

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

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.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

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

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.

Blood Tribute

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"The light of my master's guidance traverses all boundaries, even those separating life and death."

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

"For four hundred years, I have led armies of conquest. These lands hold nothing that can stand against me."

Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink
{T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Solitary Confinement

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Solitary Confinement unless you discard a card.
Skip your draw step.
You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

"You serve Phyrexia. Your pieces would better serve Phyrexia elsewhere."
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dismember

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

While most power is used for ordinary, everyday tasks, one shouldn't underestimate its potential for the extraordinary.

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.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Its eyes burned nearly blind by the Whitesun, it hunts by metallic gleam.

Glint Hawk

Flying
When Glint Hawk enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return an artifact you control to its owner's hand.

Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Blasting Station deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may untap Blasting Station.

"You want to know what we are fighting for? Look at the wonder in that child's eyes."
—Pia Nalaar

Ornithopter

Soul Echo

Soul Echo enters the battlefield with X echo counters on it.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Soul Echo if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from Soul Echo instead.

"Behold! The image of the enemy and all that she has. Trust your envy, and take it."

Magus of the Mirror

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

Archangel of Thune

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

"Why do bad things always come in threes?"
—Gisulf, expedition survivor

Triskelion

Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.

"You have an unhealthy attachment to your selfhood. I can help you with that."
—Malcator, Executor of Synthesis

Soul Conduit

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

Those who seek to disturb the harmony of life will see their instruments taken from them.

Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Kormus Bell

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

The demon Griselbrand dared to stand against Avacyn, earning him the loathing of thousands and the admiration of a few.

Disciple of Griselbrand

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

"Serra isn't dead. She lives on through me."

Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Liliana whispered to whatever consciousness Oketra and Bontu had left. "You are the gods. He is the usurper. You know what to do."

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Ward—Pay 3 life.
Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then, destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Drana and Linvala

Flying, vigilance
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.
Drana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
{1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Its very presence rips old wounds open to bleed anew.

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.)

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Treasure

"Whatever is wrong in the Shire, Lotho will be at the bottom of it: you can be sure of that."
—Pippin

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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