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Crime pays
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Est deck cost: $231.85
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Commander

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Kaervek, the Punisher

Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

Creature
Kaervek, the Punisher (otj) 92

Commander

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (pip) 272
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, 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 (dsc) 289
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (mkc) 310
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Artifact

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (blc) 268
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped. {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
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.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Unlicensed Hearse

{T}: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. Unlicensed Hearse's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards exiled with it. Crew 2

Artifact
Unlicensed Hearse (snc) 246
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 317
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
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
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
Funeral Rites

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.

Sorcery
Funeral Rites (jmp) 235
Morality Shift

Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.

Sorcery
Morality Shift (jud) 70
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (m13) 102
Phyrexian Tribute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice two creatures. Destroy target artifact.

Sorcery
Phyrexian Tribute (mir) 134
Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up. + {2} — Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up. + {2} — Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Rush of Dread (otj) 104
Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (sta) 34
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96

Sorcery

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Creature

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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. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Crypt Ghast

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.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Deep-Cavern Bat

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

Creature
Deep-Cavern Bat (lci) 102
Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Creature
Disciple of the Vault (2xm) 86
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Creature
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (cmm) 155
Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) {X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

Creature
Geth, Lord of the Vault (brc) 107
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 {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Hex Parasite (nph) 137
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Nirkana Revenant

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

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (drc) 133
Popular Egotist

{1}{B}, 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
Popular Egotist (dsk) 114
Shambling Ghast

When this creature dies, choose one — • Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Shambling Ghast (j25) 124
Skirge Familiar

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

Creature
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

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Enchantment

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Null Profusion

Skip your draw step. Whenever you play a card, draw a card. Your maximum hand size is two.

Enchantment
Null Profusion (plc) 89
Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

Enchantment
Scion of Halaster (clb) 145
Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
The Cruelty of Gix

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 — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card. II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
The Cruelty of Gix (dmu) 87

Enchantment

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Instant

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Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Blot Out

Target opponent exiles a creature or planeswalker they control with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Blot Out (mat) 12
Consuming Corruption

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

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Crypt Incursion (ltc) 198
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (vma) 113
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Outrageous Robbery

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.

Instant
Outrageous Robbery (mkm) 97
Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Instant
Power Word Kill (afr) 114
Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Instant
Tainted Strike (som) 80
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) 134
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137
You Are Already Dead

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

Instant
You Are Already Dead (neo) 129

Instant

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