Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the number of counters on it.

Lifelink

Flesh Flayer — When Flayed One enters the battlefield, mill three cards.

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.

Equip

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Whenever Flayer of the Hatebound or another creature enters the battlefield from your graveyard, that creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Gixian Skullflayer.

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

, : Hateflayer deals damage equal to its power to any target. ( is the untap symbol.)

Flying, haste

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

If a creature card with flying was exiled with Soulflayer's delve ability, Soulflayer has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token.

, : Target player mills three cards.

Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)