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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each

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.

Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian

$1.99 $1.59 $0.88

Commander

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Artifact

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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

$1.99 $1.54 $0.67

Artifact

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Counters

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Vincent Valentine

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power.
Whenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it.

Legendary Creature - Assassin

Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast (fin) 125

$0.99 $1.73 $0.28

Counters

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Creature

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Dread Shade

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature - Shade

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Emeritus of Woe

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor (sos) 80

$14.99 $12.00 $9.37

M.O.D.O.K.

Flying, lifelink
Mental Organism — Pay 3 life: M.O.D.O.K. connives. Activate only during your turn. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Designed Only for Killing — Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Villain

$5.49 $3.22 $2.89

Troop of Ponies

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Horse

$0.99 $0.28 $0.15

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 3 Price: $9.07

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.83 $2.54

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

$2.29 $4.35 $1.01

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

$2.29 $1.44 $1.00

Drain

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Draw

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Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.

: Draw seven cards.

: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Legendary Creature - Devil God

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

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

$16.99 $10.70 $10.84

Bolas's Citadel

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.

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Legendary Artifact

$13.99 $16.30 $12.47

Midnight Reaper

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

Creature - Knight Zombie

$0.69 $0.37 $0.19

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.36 $0.20

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.08 $3.18

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

$0.49 $0.31 $0.20

Rise of the Deathbringer

Choose one —
• Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You lose life equal to the number of cards drawn this way.
• All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Shelob, Dread Weaver

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it.

, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card.

: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

Legendary Creature - Demon Spider

$1.79 $0.79 $0.50

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $3.18 $0.43

Village Rites

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

Instant

$0.99 $0.91 $0.20

Draw

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Enchantment

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Changing Loyalty

Flash
Replicate

(When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.)
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.79 $1.54 $0.93

Enchantment

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 37 (38 w/ MDFC)Price: $193.13

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.41 $1.34

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

$4.99 $4.31 $3.54

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$42.99 $30.51 $29.85

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$2.49 $0.77 $----

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$3.99 $1.36 $0.82

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

$11.99 $9.38 $9.37

Land

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $11.48

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $3.11 $2.54

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $4.09 $4.17

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $68.42

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.51 $0.26

Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact

$3.99 $4.56 $3.85

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$22.99 $15.11 $14.22

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$10.99 $7.33 $6.86

Gilded Lotus

: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.62 $0.36

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $14.00 $12.49

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.57 $1.63

Troll of Khazad-dûm

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature - Troll

$4.49 $6.49 $7.50

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 8 Price: $55.88

Animate Dead

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

Enchantment - Aura

$8.49 $7.44 $5.34

Ardyn, the Usurper

Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste.
Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.

Legendary Creature - Human Elder Noble

$1.79 $1.88 $0.25

Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Avacyn or another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - Angel

$16.99 $15.71 $14.16

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.

, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Legendary Creature - Human Minion

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

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

$13.99 $6.55 $6.77

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.23 $0.66

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.

: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$11.99 $9.54 $8.00

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 16 Price: $37.26

Bitter Triumph

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Dismember

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant

$3.99 $4.16 $2.31

Epic Downfall

Exile target creature with mana value 3 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$7.99 $5.47 $4.68

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

$5.99 $4.60 $3.64

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$1.29 $0.46 $0.36

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.69 $0.31 $0.15

Koh, the Face Stealer

When Koh enters, exile up to one other target creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may exile it.
Pay 1 life: Choose a creature card exiled with Koh.
Koh has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card.

Legendary Creature - Spirit Shapeshifter

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Lich's Relic

When this Equipment enters, you may pay

. When you do, for each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.99 $1.39 $1.27

Merciless Executioner

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Warrior Orc

$1.49 $0.52 $----

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$1.29 $0.46 $0.35

Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment

$2.29 $0.67 $0.50

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$6.99 $5.05 $4.84

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

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Zodiark, Umbral God

Indestructible
When Zodiark enters, each player sacrifices half the non-God creatures they control of their choice, rounded down.
Whenever a player sacrifices another creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Zodiark.

Legendary Creature - God

$0.59 $0.71 $0.15

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 2 Price: $1.14

Bloodthrone Vampire

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature - Vampire

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

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

$0.79 $0.49 $0.45

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

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Avenger of the Fallen

Deathtouch
Mobilize X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (Whenever this creature attacks, create X tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature - Human Warrior

$0.59 $0.64 $0.15

Tokens

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

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

Sorcery

$2.99 $3.16 $2.24

Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card.
−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$8.99 $8.54 $5.27

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $1.46 $0.20

Tutor

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Maybeboard

Qty: 15 Price: $256.01

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Elf Noble

$8.99 $8.59 $6.42

Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.30 $0.21

Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.59 $2.11

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $28.71 $26.67

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

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

$0.79 $0.29 $0.15

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$84.99 $69.12 $61.46

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$20.99 $17.15 $12.63

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$11.99 $10.98 $8.06

Inside Information

Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.82 $0.62

Magus of the Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Creature - Human Wizard

$7.99 $4.93 $4.37

Necropotence

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.

Enchantment

$47.99 $38.23 $35.42

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature - Vampire Shade

$9.99 $7.02 $6.25

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

$11.99 $9.45 $6.68

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

$7.49 $5.38 $4.42

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $463.64

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Avg Mana Value: 3.44Total Mana Value: 217.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.44Total Mana Value: 217.00

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