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Braids, Arisen Nightmare
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Nightmare
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (gdy) 8

Commander

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Mycosynth Wellspring
When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Mycosynth Wellspring (brc) 150
Sol Ring
: Add
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Artifact
Sol Ring (fic) 357

Artifact

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Butcher Ghoul
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.)
Creature - Zombie
Butcher Ghoul (inr) 99
Butcher of Malakir
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Vampire Warrior
Butcher of Malakir (lcc) 187
Diregraf Ghoul
This creature enters tapped.
Creature - Zombie
Diregraf Ghoul (fdn) 171
Ophiomancer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Creature - Human Shaman
Ophiomancer (tdc) 193
Popular Egotist
, Sacrifice another creature or enchantment: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue
Popular Egotist (dsk) 114
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Vincent Valentine
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power.
Whenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it.
Legendary Creature - Assassin
Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast (fin) 125Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast (fin) 125

Creature

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Fear of Lost Teeth
When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.
Creature Enchantment - Nightmare
Fear of Lost Teeth (dsk) 97
Vampire Spawn
When this creature enters, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire
Vampire Spawn (afr) 123

Drain

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Demonic Pact
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• This enchantment deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Draw two cards.
• You lose the game.
Enchantment
Demonic Pact (fdn) 602
Diresight
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Filigree Familiar
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Fox
Filigree Familiar (cmr) 308
Ichor Wellspring
When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.
Artifact
Ichor Wellspring (mbs) 110
Painful Lesson
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Painful Lesson (plst) AKH-102
Phyrexian Vivisector
Whenever a creature you control dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Human Phyrexian
Phyrexian Vivisector (dmu) 100
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

Draw

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Ghoulish Procession
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Enchantment
Ghoulish Procession (inr) 110

Enchantment

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Hidden Necropolis
This land enters tapped.
: Add
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, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Land - Cave
Hidden Necropolis (lci) 275
Memorial to Folly
This land enters tapped.
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, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Memorial to Folly (tdc) 377
Mortuary Mire
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
: Add
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Land
Mortuary Mire (pip) 272
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (tdc) 380
Swamp
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.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (dsk) 281

Land

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Carrion Grub
This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard.
When this creature enters, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Insect
Carrion Grub (dsc) 134
Ghoulcaller's Bell
: Each player mills a card.
Artifact
Ghoulcaller's Bell (isd) 224
Overlord of the Balemurk
Impending 5—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Overlord of the Balemurk (dsk) 113

Mill

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Loyal Subordinate
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.
Creature - Zombie
Loyal Subordinate (cmm) 172

Pingers

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Fake Your Own Death
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Fake Your Own Death (fdn) 174
Knight of Dusk's Shadow
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Human Knight
Knight of Dusk's Shadow (dmu) 96
Not Dead After All
Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Offer Immortality
Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Offer Immortality (fdn) 525
Undying Malice
Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."
Instant
Undying Malice (fdn) 528

Protection

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Bonder's Ornament
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Each player who controls a permanent named Bonder's Ornament draws a card.
Artifact
Bonder's Ornament (cmm) 370
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
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Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 442
Cryptolith Fragment
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color. Each player loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if each player has 10 or less life, transform this artifact.
Artifact
Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (inr) 260Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (inr) 260
Hedron Archive
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Hedron Archive (blc) 275
Leaden Myr
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Creature Artifact - Myr
Leaden Myr (som) 170
Millikin
, Mill a card: Add
. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Millikin (ody) 302
Mind Stone
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (blc) 280
Prismatic Lens
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: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Prismatic Lens (otc) 264

Ramp

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Bloodghast
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Spirit
Bloodghast (dft) 77
Braids's Frightful Return
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent of their choice. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.
Enchantment - Saga
Braids's Frightful Return (dmu) 85
Bringer of the Last Gift
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bringer of the Last Gift (lci) 94
Coiling Rebirth
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.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.
Sorcery
Coiling Rebirth (blb) 86
Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Footsteps of the Goryo
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Sorcery - Arcane
Footsteps of the Goryo (plst) SOK-68
Geth's Summons
Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Corrupted — For each opponent who has three or more poison counters as you cast this spell, put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Geth's Summons (onc) 11
No One Left Behind
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a creature card with mana value 3 or less.
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
No One Left Behind (bro) 109
Persistent Specimen
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton
Persistent Specimen (j25) 473
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (fdn) 182
Retrofitted Transmogrant
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature Artifact - Zombie
Retrofitted Transmogrant (mh3) 106
Valgavoth's Faithful
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Human Cleric
Valgavoth's Faithful (dsk) 121

Recursion

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Come Back Wrong
Destroy target creature. If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
Sorcery
Come Back Wrong (dsk) 86
Dash Hopes
When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Dash Hopes (plst) PLC-68
Extract a Confession
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. (Exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If evidence was collected, instead each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control.
Sorcery
Extract a Confession (mkm) 84
Hero's Downfall
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
Mirrodin Avenged
Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card.
Instant
Mirrodin Avenged (mom) 118
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.
Instant
Sheoldred's Edict (one) 108
Tithing Blade
When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Craft with creature
(
, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
Artifact
Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher (lci) 128Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher (lci) 128
Tragic Slip
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
Instant
Tragic Slip (inr) 390

Removal

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Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (tdc) 202

Sac Outlet

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Avenger of the Fallen
Deathtouch
Mobilize X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (Whenever this creature attacks, create X tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.)
Creature - Human Warrior
Avenger of the Fallen (tdm) 73
Infestation Sage
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token with flying.
Creature - Elf Warlock
Infestation Sage (fdn) 64

Tokens

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Demonic Counsel
Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92

Tutor

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Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (tdc) 171
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Gixian Puppeteer
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Warlock Phyrexian
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Grim Haruspex
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (tdc) 188
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (tdc) 198

Maybeboard

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Braids, Cabal Minion
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact, creature, or land of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Human Minion
Braids, Cabal Minion (mh2) 273

Sitting here menacingly incase someone on the table is annoying me

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