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4BB · Sorcery
Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
| Name | Mana | Type | Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnival of Souls | 1B | Enchantment | Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add {B}. |
| Clutch of the Undercity | 1UUB | Instant | Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.) |
| Infernal Grasp | 1B | Instant | Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life. |
| Pain | B | Sorcery | Target player discards a card. |
| Scholar of Athreos | 2W | Creature — Human Cleric | {2}{B}: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. 1/4 |
| Psychic Barrier | UU | Instant | Counter target creature spell. Its controller loses 1 life. |
| Psychic Purge | U | Sorcery | Psychic Purge deals 1 damage to any target. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Psychic Purge, that player loses 5 life. |
| Skull Fracture | B | Sorcery | Target player discards a card. Flashback {3}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) |
| Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver | 5UBR | Legendary Planeswalker — Bolas | [+3]: Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card. [−3]: Destroy target creature. Draw a card. [−11]: Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver deals 7 damage to each opponent. You draw seven cards. Loyalty 5 |
| Mardu Shadowspear | B | Creature — Human Warrior | Whenever Mardu Shadowspear attacks, each opponent loses 1 life. Dash {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.) 1/1 |