Black pays life for cards, which makes it the most reliable draw in the game when your life total has room. Includes both one-shot refills and repeatable engines.
94%Phyrexian Arena EnchantmentAt the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.$4.40
91%Deadly Dispute InstantAs an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an $0.32
92%Black Market Connections EnchantmentAt the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Bu$9.07
92%Night's Whisper SorceryYou draw two cards and lose 2 life.$5.45
92%Village Rites InstantAs an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.$0.88
90%Morbid Opportunist Creature — Human RogueWhenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.$0.30
81%Braids, Arisen Nightmare Legendary Creature — NightmareAt the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each op$4.90
86%Baleful Strix Artifact Creature — BirdFlying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.$7.52
93%Read the Bones SorceryScry 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 o$0.31
83%Ziatora's Proving Ground Land — Swamp Mountain Forest({T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)$9.33
90%Corrupted Conviction InstantAs an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.$0.38
82%Canyon Slough Land — Swamp Mountain({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)$0.26
87%Castle Locthwain LandThis land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the num$4.29
91%Liliana, Dreadhorde General Legendary Planeswalker — LilianaWhenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two cr$7.54
89%Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Legendary Creature — Human ClericProtection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {$29.23
83%Fetid Pools Land — Island Swamp({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)$0.36
92%Ayara, First of Locthwain Legendary Creature — Elf NobleWhenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice anothe$9.14
86%The Gitrog Monster Legendary Creature — Frog HorrorDeathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land. You may play an additional l$0.40
90%Moldervine Reclamation EnchantmentWhenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.$0.34
89%Syphon Mind SorceryEach other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.$0.63
84%Barren Moor LandThis land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)$0.62
92%Midnight Reaper Creature — Zombie KnightWhenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.$0.22
91%Archon of Cruelty Creature — ArchonFlying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a
91%Vilis, Broker of Blood Legendary Creature — DemonFlying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes$9.92
89%Grim Haruspex Creature — Human WizardMorph {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 anot$2.95
81%Spymaster's Vault LandThis land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the$2.92
88%Plumb the Forbidden InstantAs an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature $0.37
91%Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid Land — Town // Sorcery — AdventureMidgar, City of Mako: This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. // Reactor Raid: You may sacrifice an artifact or creature. If you do$2.37
82%Dark Confidant Creature — Human WizardAt 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 $3.43
88%Waste Not EnchantmentWhenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card$8.67
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