The Core

(Transforms from Matzalantli.)
Fathomless descent — {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Matzalantli, the Great Door

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{4}, {T}: Transform Matzalantli, the Great Door. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)

Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core

Writhing Necromass

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Deathtouch

Hazel's Nocturne

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Quest for the Necropolis

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a quest counter on Quest for the Necropolis.
{5}{B}, Sacrifice Quest for the Necropolis: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each quest counter on Quest for the Necropolis. Activate only as a sorcery.

Coat with Venom

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Malakir Blood-Priest

When Malakir Blood-Priest enters, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of creatures in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

Infernal Scarring

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has "When this creature dies, draw a card."

Mirrodin Avenged

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card.

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis

Flying
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis attacks alone, defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Swamp

Ichor Drinker

Lifelink
{B}, Exile Ichor Drinker from your graveyard: Incubate 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Offer Immortality

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Consumed by Greed

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mind Carver

When Mind Carver enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0. It gets +3/+1 instead as long as an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.
Equip {2}{B}

Soulcoil Viper

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Soulcoil Viper: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Mind Drain

Target opponent discards two cards, mills a card, and loses 1 life. You gain 1 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink
When Deep-Cavern Bat enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until Deep-Cavern Bat leaves the battlefield.

Cruel Grimnarch

Deathtouch
When Cruel Grimnarch enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you gain 4 life.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Dreadwurm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, Dreadwurm gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Sol Ring

Dreg Recycler

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Nullpriest of Oblivion

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Lifelink
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Exsanguinate

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

Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Breathe Your Last

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.

Sporogenic Infection

Enchant creature
When Sporogenic Infection enters, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice other than enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

Scion of the Swarm

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Scion of the Swarm.

Blood Beckoning

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was kicked, instead return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Go for the Throat

Pilfer

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.