Arcane Encyclopedia

Eviscerate

Ichor Slick

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Insatiable Harpy

Altar of the Pantheon

Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Duress

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

Hideous End

Destroy target nonblack creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Exsanguinate

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

Scales of Shale

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Lizard you control.
Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn.

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Rise Again

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Banewhip Punisher

When Banewhip Punisher enters, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{B}, Sacrifice Banewhip Punisher: Destroy target creature that has a -1/-1 counter on it.

Voracious Fell Beast

Flying
When Voracious Fell Beast enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create a Food token for each creature sacrificed this way. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Anointed Deacon

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have target Vampire get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Unscrupulous Agent

When Unscrupulous Agent enters, target opponent exiles a card from their hand.

Twisted Abomination

{B}: Regenerate Twisted Abomination. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Boot Nipper

Boot Nipper enters with your choice of a deathtouch counter or a lifelink counter on it.

Mind Rot

Eldrazi Devastator

Blightcaster

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may have target creature get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Executioner's Capsule

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Grimdancer

Grimdancer enters with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Destroy the Evidence

Destroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Murder

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Moodmark Painter

Undergrowth — When Moodmark Painter enters, target creature gains menace and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Grisly Spectacle

Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power.

Ghastly Death Tyrant

When Ghastly Death Tyrant enters, choose one —
• Disintegration Ray — Destroy target enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to its mana value.
• Death Ray — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Douser of Lights

Criminal Past

Commander creatures you own have menace and "This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Orzhov Enforcer

Deathtouch
Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

Balustrade Spy

Flying
When Balustrade Spy enters, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Marsh Casualties

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.)
Creatures target player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, those creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn instead.

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Gloom Sower

Whenever Gloom Sower becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Unexpected Fangs

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

Contaminated Ground

Enchant land
Enchanted land is a Swamp.
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

Quag Sickness

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each Swamp you control.

Fell

Virulent Plague

Cartouche of Ambition

Enchant creature you control
When Cartouche of Ambition enters, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Marshmist Titan

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Swamp

Dross Skullbomb

{1}, Sacrifice Dross Skullbomb: Draw a card.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice Dross Skullbomb: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Myrkul's Invoker

Psychic Blades — {8}: Creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Dark Favor

Enchant creature
When Dark Favor enters, you lose 1 life.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.

Inner Demon

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.
When Inner Demon enters, all non-Demon creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Last Gasp

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Mind Sludge

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

Heartless Act

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Finishing Blow

Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Bonecaller Cleric

{3}{B}, Sacrifice Bonecaller Cleric: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Vicious Offering

Kicker—Sacrifice a creature. (You may sacrifice a creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn instead.

Summon Undead

You may mill three cards. Then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Unbreakable Bond

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.

Corrupted Roots

Enchant Forest or Plains
Whenever enchanted land becomes tapped, its controller loses 2 life.

Arms of Hadar

Creatures target player controls get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Dross Crocodile

Enslave

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted creature deals 1 damage to its owner.

Child of Night

Starlit Soothsayer

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Entropic Cloud

Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Topaz Dragon

Topaz Dragon // Entropic Cloud

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

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.

Venomous Hierophant

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When Venomous Hierophant enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Syndicate Enforcer

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Terrus Wurm

Scavenge {6}{B} ({6}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)