Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

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

({T}: Add {R}.)

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Add {B}{B}{B}.

Cumulative upkeep—Add {R}. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

{T}: Add {R}. Put a stash counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of stash counters on this artifact.

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add {B}."

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Look at target opponent's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

Choose target creature. Roll X six-sided dice. For each even result, put two -1/-1 counters on that creature. For each odd result, create a 1/2 blue Bird creature token with flying named Storm Crow.

Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

Blaze deals X damage to any target.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Each other player loses X life.

Spend only black mana on X. Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Crater's Claws deals X damage to any target. Ferocious — Crater's Claws deals X plus 2 damage instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Devil's Play deals X damage to any target. Flashback {X}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.

Disintegrate deals X damage to any target. If it's a creature, it can't be regenerated this turn, and if it would die this turn, exile it instead.

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Destroy all creatures with mana value X or less.

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) Ghitu Fire deals X damage to any target.

Heat Ray deals X damage to target creature.

Hell to Pay deals X damage to target creature. Create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the amount of excess damage dealt to that creature this way.

Destroy target creature with mana value X. If that creature dies this way, Kaervek's Purge deals damage equal to the creature's power to the creature's controller.

As long as Kaervek's Torch is on the stack, spells that target it cost {2} more to cast. Kaervek's Torch deals X damage to any target.

Destroy target creature with power X or less.

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Lava Burst deals X damage to any target. If Lava Burst would deal damage to a creature, that damage can't be prevented or dealt instead to another permanent or player.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice. Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Target player discards X cards at random.

Target player discards X cards at random.

Look at target player's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

Flying, trample When Orcus enters, choose one — • Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life. • Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

X target blocked creatures assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast it.

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Rolling Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without horsemanship and each player.

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You lose X life.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token can't block." Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Spend only black and/or red mana on X. Soul Burn deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more than the amount of {B} spent on X, the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

X target creatures can't block this turn.