You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

If an artifact or creature entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

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

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add {B}.

Flying If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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 that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

When Chittering Witch enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have. {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

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}.

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.

When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Gravecrawler can't block. You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, 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.)

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Convoke Flying When Hoarding Broodlord enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

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.)

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

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Midnight Reaper deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

When Plaguecrafter enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Each player who can't discards a card.

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Flying, haste Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number — • Each player discards a card. • Each player loses 1 life and draws a card. • Each player sacrifices a creature.

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Backup 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

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, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Deathtouch When Tainted Adversary enters the battlefield, you may pay {2}{B} any number of times. When you pay this cost one or more times, put that many +1/+1 counters on Tainted Adversary, then create twice that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens with decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Deathtouch When Vile Entomber enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Cumulative upkeep {1}{B} (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.) At the beginning of each upkeep, if Tombstone Stairwell is on the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in their graveyard. At the beginning of each end step or when Tombstone Stairwell leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with Tombstone Stairwell. They can't be regenerated.

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

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

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their base power is half that creature's power and their base toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

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

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Crypt of Agadeem enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

({T}: Add {B}.)

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

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

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.

Nyx Lotus enters the battlefield 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.)

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

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

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

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Flying When Abhorrent Overlord enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Flash Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life. {0}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Bloodsoaked Champion can't block. Raid — {1}{B}: Return Bloodsoaked Champion from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if you attacked this turn.

{1}: Add {B}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 0/1 black Insect creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step. {2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.

When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Crowded Crypt: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

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

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, Master Breeder.

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.) When Fell Stinger exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Deathtouch When Gonti, Lord of Luxury enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Gutterbones enters the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}: Return Gutterbones from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.

{1}: Add {B}. If this ability has been activated four or more times this turn, sacrifice Initiates of the Ebon Hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Kicker {5}{B} (You may pay an additional {5}{B} as you cast this spell.) Menace When Josu Vess, Lich Knight enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

Whenever another Rat enters the battlefield under your control, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."

Menace Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy. Destroy target nonblack creature.

Undergrowth — Search your library for a black card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it. Equip {4}

Oathsworn Vampire enters the battlefield tapped. You may cast Oathsworn Vampire from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Equipped creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Equip {1}

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

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

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

When Sengir Autocrat enters the battlefield, create three 0/1 black Serf creature tokens. When Sengir Autocrat leaves the battlefield, exile all Serf tokens.

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

When Skullport Merchant enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or a Treasure: Draw a card.

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

As Species Specialist enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature. Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc. Equip {2}

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

When Stitcher's Supplier enters the battlefield or dies, mill three cards.

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature." Whenever a Shaman creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Thornbite Staff to it. Equip {4}

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

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.)

Deathtouch Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)