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Kresh the Bloodbraided
Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh, where X is that creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Kresh the Bloodbraided (ala) 178

Commander

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Archfiend of Depravity
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Depravity (pfrf) 62
Death-Rattle Oni
Flash
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature that died this turn.
When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures that were dealt damage this turn.
Creature - Demon Spirit
Death-Rattle Oni (mat) 13
Desecration Demon
Flying
At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Demon
Desecration Demon (rtr) 63
Dragon Broodmother
Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 red and green Dragon creature token with flying and devour 2. (As the token enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
Creature - Dragon
Dragon Broodmother (parb) 53★
Dreaded Bat-Cloud
This spell costs
less to cast if a creature died this turn.
Flying, deathtouch
Creature - Bat
Dreaded Bat-Cloud (hob) 66
Eradicator Valkyrie
Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers
Boast —
, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
Creature - Angel Berserker
Eradicator Valkyrie (khm) 94
Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
Flying
Gadrak can't attack unless you control four or more artifacts.
At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each nontoken creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Dragon
Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge (m21) 146
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (j25) 77
Grim Wanderer
Flash
Tragic Backstory — Cast this spell only if a creature died this turn.
Creature - Goblin Warlock
Grim Wanderer (afr) 107
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life.
Escape—
, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Legendary Creature - Elder Giant
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
Mage Slayer
Whenever equipped creature attacks, it deals damage equal to its power to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Mage Slayer (arb) 57
Mogis, God of Slaughter
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Mogis, God of Slaughter (bng) 151
Pathbreaker Ibex
Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Creature - Goat
Pathbreaker Ibex (c15) 38
Perforating Artist
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
Creature - Devil
Perforating Artist (fdn) 124
Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent may sacrifice two nonland, nontoken permanents of their choice. If they don't, you draw two cards.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Rakdos, Patron of Chaos (mkm) 224
Rhonas the Indomitable
Deathtouch, indestructible
Rhonas can't attack or block unless you control another creature with power 4 or greater.
: Another target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - God
Rhonas the Indomitable (akh) 182
Rite of the Raging Storm
Creatures named Lightning Rager can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player creates a 5/1 red Elemental creature token named Lightning Rager. It has trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."
Enchantment
Rite of the Raging Storm (c15) 30
Rot-Curse Rakshasa
Trample
Decayed (This creature can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Renew —
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a decayed counter on each of X target creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Demon
Rot-Curse Rakshasa (tdm) 87
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, Whispering One (mul) 16
Ziatora, the Incinerator
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.
Legendary Creature - Demon Dragon
Ziatora, the Incinerator (snc) 231

Aggro

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Deadly Dispute
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Deadly Dispute (afr) 94
Deathreap Ritual
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.
Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (cns) 44
Desperate Measures
Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.
Instant
Desperate Measures (tdm) 78
Faithless Looting
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Faithless Looting (dka) 87
Fiend Artisan
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
,
, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Nightmare
Fiend Artisan (iko) 220
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Mosswood Dreadknight
Trample
When this creature dies, you may cast it from your graveyard as an Adventure until the end of your next turn.
Creature - Human Knight
Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers (woe) 231
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (ori) 114
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (cmd) 260
Verdant Rebirth
Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand."
Draw a card.
Instant
Verdant Rebirth (xln) 212
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117

Card Advantage

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Assassin's Trophy
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Assassin's Trophy (grn) 152
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (tsr) 357
Chaos Warp
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Instant
Chaos Warp (cmd) 114
Fling
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.
Instant
Fling (m11) 139
Mandate of Abaddon
Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.
Sorcery
Mandate of Abaddon (40k) 40
Mizzium Mortars
Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Mizzium Mortars (rtr) 101
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
Soul Shatter
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Instant
Soul Shatter (znr) 127
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Terminate (arb) 46
Terror of the Peaks
Flying
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast.
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.
Creature - Dragon
Terror of the Peaks (m21) 164
Vona's Hunger
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.
Instant
Vona's Hunger (rix) 90

Interaction

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Blood Crypt
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or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Blood Crypt (rtr) 238
Bloodstained Mire
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (cmd) 269
Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (m10) 223
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (con) 142
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ala) 248
Jund Panorama
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Jund Panorama (ala) 225
Kessig Wolf Run
: Add
.
,
: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Land
Kessig Wolf Run (isd) 243
Luxury Suite
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (ala) 245
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (rav) 279
Rootbound Crag
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rootbound Crag (m10) 227
Savage Lands
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Savage Lands (ala) 228
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
: Add
.
,
: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.
Legendary Land
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep (chk) 282
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
: Add
.
,
: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Legendary Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (chk) 283
Spire Garden
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Spire Garden (clb) 361
Stomping Ground
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Mountain Forest
Stomping Ground (gpt) 165
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ala) 240
Undergrowth Stadium
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (zen) 229
Wooded Foothills
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Wooded Foothills (ktk) 249
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (isd) 249

Land

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Bramble Familiar
: Add
.
,
, Discard a card: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Elemental Raccoon
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 164
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c16) 254
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost
less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Bear
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (m19) 186
Ignoble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
: Add
,
, or
.
Creature - Goblin Shaman
Ignoble Hierarch (mh2) 166
Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (chk) 225
Obelisk of Jund
: Add
,
, or
.
Artifact
Obelisk of Jund (ala) 215
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power.
,
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (cn2) 70
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (cmd) 261
The Great Henge
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
: Add
. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.
Legendary Artifact
The Great Henge (eld) 161
Wayward Swordtooth
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.
Creature - Dinosaur
Wayward Swordtooth (rix) 150

Mana Acceleration

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Brawn
Trample
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.
Creature - Incarnation
Brawn (cmd) 145
Feldon of the Third Path
,
: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Feldon of the Third Path (tsr) 344
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legendary Creature - Elf Zombie
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (rtr) 174
Malakir Rebirth
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Mimic Vat
Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard.
,
: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Artifact
Mimic Vat (som) 175
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
Sneak Attack
: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Enchantment
Sneak Attack (usg) 218
The Ozolith
Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.
Legendary Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 362
The Skullspore Nexus
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures.
,
: Double target creature's power until end of turn.
Legendary Artifact
The Skullspore Nexus (lci) 212

Utility

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Cauldron of Essence
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Cauldron of Essence (sos) 347
Chandra's Ignition
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.
Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (ori) 137
Corpse Explosion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Corpse Explosion deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to each creature and each planeswalker.
Sorcery
Corpse Explosion (snc) 179
Glissa Sunslayer
First strike, deathtouch
Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You draw a card and lose 1 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Remove up to three counters from target permanent.
Legendary Creature - Elf Zombie Phyrexian
Glissa Sunslayer (ecc) 122
Huskburster Swarm
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card you own in exile and in your graveyard.
Menace, deathtouch
Creature - Elemental Insect
Huskburster Swarm (blb) 98
Kazuul's Fury
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Kazuul's Fury deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.
Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)
Legendary Creature - Cleric Zombie
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (dka) 70
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230

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