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Sauron, the Necromancer
Menace
Whenever Sauron attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Wraith with menace. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token unless Sauron is your Ring-bearer.
Legendary Creature - Avatar Horror
Sauron, the Necromancer (ltr) 106

Commander

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My Precious
Equipped creature has hexproof and can't be blocked.
Equip—
, Pay 2 life.
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
My Precious // Allure of Power (hob) 176

Artifact

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Archfiend of Despair
Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Despair (frc) 46

Burn

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Nazgûl
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, put a +1/+1 counter on each Wraith you control.
A deck can have up to nine cards named Nazgûl.
Creature - Knight Wraith
Nazgûl (ltr) 100
Tarrian's Soulcleaver
Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Tarrian's Soulcleaver (lci) 264

Counters

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Defiling Daemogoth
Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Demon
Defiling Daemogoth (soc) 25
Stensian Sanguinist
Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this combat, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate (soc) 29
The Master of Lake-town
Deathtouch
Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
When The Master of Lake-town dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
The Master of Lake-town (hob) 77
Twilight Diviner
When this creature enters, 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.)
Whenever one or more other creatures you control enter, if they entered or were cast from a graveyard, create a token that's a copy of one of them. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Cleric Elf
Twilight Diviner (ecl) 315

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 (soc) 209
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
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
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (soc) 233

Drain

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Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (msc) 155
Call of the Ring
At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 79
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 (tdc) 177
Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 110

Draw

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (soc) 380
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (hob) 196
The Black Gate
As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.
Legendary Land - Gate
The Black Gate (ltc) 80

Land

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Shadowspear
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236

Lifegain

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Morality Shift
Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.
Sorcery
Morality Shift (jud) 70

Mill

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Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
+1: Surveil 2.
−1: Any number of target players each discard a card.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ral
Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer (sos) 97

Planeswalker

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (soc) 127
Culling the Weak
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add
.
Instant
Culling the Weak (soa) 27
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mir) 116
Greedy Freebooter
When this creature dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Pirate
Greedy Freebooter (lci) 109
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Pawn of Ulamog
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Pawn of Ulamog (soc) 223
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128

Ramp

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Apprentice Necromancer
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Apprentice Necromancer (plst) UMA-84
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) 373
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 (cmm) 173
Oversold Cemetery
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.
Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (fdc) 122
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 (fic) 282
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fic) 283
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 (sld) 211
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

Recursion

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Boggart Trawler
When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.
Creature - Goblin
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
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
Claim the Precious
Destroy target creature. The Ring tempts you.
Sorcery
Claim the Precious (ltr) 81
Eaten Alive
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay
.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Sorcery
Eaten Alive (inr) 106
Embrace Oblivion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Destroy target creature or Spacecraft.
Sorcery
Embrace Oblivion (eoe) 98
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (soa) 29
Finale of Eternity
Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Finale of Eternity (war) 91
Flare of Malice
You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 331
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (soc) 216
Saw in Half
Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.
Instant
Saw in Half (blc) 113
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (soc) 120
Witch-king of Angmar
Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap him.
Legendary Creature - Wraith Noble
Witch-king of Angmar (ltr) 114

Removal

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Gollum, Patient Plotter
When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Horror Halfling
Gollum, Patient Plotter (ltr) 450
Umbral Collar Zealot
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Umbral Collar Zealot (soc) 227
Viscera Seer
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Viscera Seer (soc) 229
Woe Strider
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—
, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Horror
Woe Strider (soc) 231
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 (soc) 232

Sac Outlet

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Opposition Agent
Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.
Creature - Human Rogue
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141

Stax

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Beseech the Queen
(
can be paid with any two mana or with
. 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.
Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
Deathtouch
Boast —
: 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.)
Legendary Creature - Demon Rogue
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 309

Tutor

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Aether Snap
Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.
Sorcery
Aether Snap (ncc) 241
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 (fic) 273
Archon of Cruelty
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Creature - Archon
Archon of Cruelty (frc) 47
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
Flash
Menace
When Lobelia enters, exile target creature card from an opponent's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, then create X Treasure tokens, where X is the exiled card's power.
Legendary Creature - Citizen Halfling
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (ltr) 93
Massacre Wurm
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Creature - Wurm Phyrexian
Massacre Wurm (fdn) 714
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

Sideboard

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Eldrazi Spawn
Sacrifice this creature: Add
.
Creature Token - Eldrazi Spawn
Eldrazi Spawn (tsoc) 1
Goat
Creature Token - Goat
Goat (tmsc) 22
Shapeshifter
Changeling (This token is every creature type.)
Creature Token - Shapeshifter
Shapeshifter (tmsc) 18
The Ring
Your Ring-bearer is legendary and can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.
Whenever your Ring-bearer attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever your Ring-bearer becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat.
Whenever your Ring-bearer deals combat damage to a player, each opponent loses 3 life.
Emblem
The Ring // The Ring Tempts You (tltr) H13The Ring // The Ring Tempts You (tltr) H13
Treasure
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact Token - Treasure
Treasure (thob) 13
Zombie
Creature Token - Zombie
Zombie (tecc) 3

Tokens & Extras

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