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Captain N'ghathrod
Horrors you control have menace.
Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Horror Pirate
Captain N'ghathrod (sld) 2183

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Aboleth Spawn
Flash
Ward

Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Creature - Horror Fish
Aboleth Spawn (clb) 662
Endless Evil
Enchant creature you control
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except the token is 1/1.
When enchanted creature dies, if that creature was a Horror, return this card to its owner's hand.
Enchantment - Aura
Endless Evil (clb) 665
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Hexproof
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind (znc) 92

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Creature

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Gollum, Riddle Master
As Gollum enters, choose odd or even. (Zero is even.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value of the chosen quality, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on Gollum.
• Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
• Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Horror Halfling
Gollum, Riddle Master (hob) 70
Omni-Changeling
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Omni-Changeling (ecl) 62

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Drain

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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

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Bident of Thassa
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
,
: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (lcc) 146
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (tle) 155
Drown in Dreams
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target player draws X cards.
• Target player mills twice X cards.
Instant
Drown in Dreams (mic) 13
Folio of Fancies
Players have no maximum hand size.
,
: Each player draws X cards.
,
: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.
Artifact - Book
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Horror
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (clb) 723
Horrid Shadowspinner
Lifelink
Whenever this creature attacks, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard that many cards.
Creature - Horror
Horrid Shadowspinner (mh3) 188
Overlord of the Floodpits
Impending 4—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four 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.)
Flying
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Overlord of the Floodpits (dsk) 68
Phyrexian Portal
: If your library has ten or more cards in it, target opponent looks at the top ten cards of your library and separates them into two face-down piles. Exile one of those piles. Search the other pile for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle the rest of that pile into your library.
Artifact
Phyrexian Portal (all) 126
Pull from Tomorrow
Draw X cards, then discard a card.
Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (soc) 116
Silent Hallcreeper
This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• Draw a card.
• This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Silent Hallcreeper (dsk) 72
Wharf Infiltrator
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay
. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.
Creature - Human Horror
Wharf Infiltrator (clb) 737

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Land

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Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Choked Estuary
As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (msc) 229
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 233
Darkslick Shores
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Darkslick Shores (otc) 281
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (tdc) 355
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (msc) 239
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (mbc) 79
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (trk) 319
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
.
Land
Mortuary Mire (clb) 900
Nephalia Drownyard
: Add
.
,
: Target player mills three cards.
Land
Nephalia Drownyard (lcc) 344
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (mbc) 80
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (hoc) 212
Secret Tunnel
This land can't be blocked.
: Add
.
,
: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can't be blocked this turn.
Land - Cave
Secret Tunnel (tla) 278
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (msc) 271
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (trk) 321
Temple of Deceit
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (fdn) 697
Unclaimed Territory
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.
Land
Unclaimed Territory (msc) 275
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (trk) 306

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Mill

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Ashiok, Dream Render
Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ashiok
Ashiok, Dream Render (war) 228
Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
Creature - Horror
Consuming Aberration (tdc) 283
Cut Your Losses
Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
Target player mills half their library, rounded down.
Sorcery
Cut Your Losses (snc) 38
Fractured Sanity
Each opponent mills fourteen cards.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.
Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Glimpse the Unthinkable
Target player mills ten cards.
Sorcery
Glimpse the Unthinkable (2x2) 218
Guiltfeeder
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.
Creature - Horror
Guiltfeeder (clb) 756
Imperious Mindbreaker
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."
Creature - Human Wizard
Imperious Mindbreaker (voc) 33
Maddening Cacophony
Kicker

Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.
Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
Nemesis of Reason
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills ten cards.
Creature - Horror Leviathan
Nemesis of Reason (clb) 850
Phenax, God of Deception
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature.
Creatures you control have "
: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Phenax, God of Deception (bng) 152
Screaming Swarm
Flying
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, target player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
: Put this card from your graveyard into your library second from the top.
Creature - Bird Horror
Screaming Swarm (vow) 75
Sewer Nemesis
As this creature enters, choose a player.
Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard.
Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.
Creature - Horror
Sewer Nemesis (clb) 771
Shadow Kin
Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
Teferi's Tutelage
When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Enchantment
Teferi's Tutelage (m21) 78
The Ancient One
Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.
Legendary Creature - Spirit God
The Ancient One (lci) 222
Trepanation Blade
Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into their graveyard.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Trepanation Blade (ima) 231
Umbris, Fear Manifest
Umbris gets +1/+1 for each card your opponents own in exile.
Whenever Umbris or another Nightmare or Horror you control enters, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a land card.
Legendary Creature - Horror Nightmare
Umbris, Fear Manifest (voc) 38

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Ancient Cellarspawn
Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 16
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (msc) 191
Defiler of Flesh
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Grell Philosopher
Aberrant Tinkering — When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, each Horror you control gains all activated abilities of target artifact an opponent controls until end of turn. You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.
Creature - Wizard Horror
Grell Philosopher (clb) 666
Progenitor's Icon
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
: Add one mana of any color.
: The next spell of the chosen type you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash.
Artifact
Progenitor's Icon (msc) 208
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 211

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Recursion

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Command the Dreadhorde
Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Psionic Ritual
Replicate—Tap an untapped Horror you control. (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Exile Psionic Ritual.
Sorcery
Psionic Ritual (clb) 668

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Removal

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Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Basilisk Collar (fdn) 669
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Drown in the Loch
Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
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 (tle) 257
Hullbreaker Horror
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Creature - Horror Kraken
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 68
Illithid Harvester
Ceremorphosis — When this creature enters, turn any number of target tapped nontoken creatures face down. They're 2/2 Horror creatures.
Creature - Horror
Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles (clb) 76
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (soc) 216
Mind Flayer
Dominate Monster — When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.
Creature - Horror
Mind Flayer (clb) 728
Phyrexian Obliterator
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 105
Ravenous Chupacabra
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Creature - Beast Horror
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Sludge Monster
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.
Non-Horror creatures with slime counters on them lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 2/2.
Creature - Horror
Sludge Monster (clb) 735
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 (msc) 161
Toxrill, the Corrosive
At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them.
Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token.
, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Horror Slug
Toxrill, the Corrosive (vow) 132

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Theft

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Arvinox, the Mind Flail
Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Horror
Arvinox, the Mind Flail (dsc) 130
Brainstealer Dragon
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may 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 color to cast it.
Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.
Creature - Dragon Horror
Brainstealer Dragon (otc) 127
Deluxe Dragster
This Vehicle can't be blocked except by Vehicles.
Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Crew 2
Artifact - Vehicle
Deluxe Dragster (moc) 21
Elder Brain
Menace
Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled 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 color to cast it.
Creature - Horror
Elder Brain (clb) 125
Memory Plunder
You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Memory Plunder (clb) 849
Wrexial, the Risen Deep
Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.)
Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Kraken
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (ncc) 359

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Chasm Skulker
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Creature - Horror Squid
Chasm Skulker (moc) 218
Uchuulon
Uchuulon's power is equal to the number of Crabs, Oozes, and/or Horrors you control.
Horrific Symbiosis — At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Creature - Ooze Crab Horror
Uchuulon (clb) 673

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