mtg black life gain cards Mono Lifegain/Enchantments and such.. (Casual Deck) You gain life equal to the life lost this way Mono Black Life Gain Methods

They are awesome

In the early days we don't have that many options - Terror, Dark Banishing and then the sweeping removal of Hellfire

Command Beacon helps you get around this by taking your Commander and adding it directly to your hand

Finally, we've crafted this black Traveling Chocobo card

Once you have more draw effects on the stack than cards in your library, resolve a shuffler effect like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and put your whole library and graveyard into your hand, without drawing yourself out

But at least here the ceiling is potentially quite high even without using shenanigans to boost its power, you can deploy an immediate Lotus Bloom off the trigger