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Breath of the Undying
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Commander

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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.)

Creature
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (plst) UMA-106

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Combo Win

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Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
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
Bastion of Remembrance (iko) 73
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (voc) 119
Falkenrath Noble

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

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (voc) 128
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Vengeful Bloodwitch

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

Creature
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 76
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (znc) 57

Combo Win

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Draw

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Fell Stinger

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

Creature
Fell Stinger (vow) 112
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Grim Haruspex

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.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (voc) 133
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
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 (tsr) 328
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (cm2) 77
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (clb) 870
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117
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. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 315

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Land

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Barren Moor

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (ons) 312
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (plst) C18-238
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Castle Locthwain

This land enters 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.

Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 345
Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Land
Detection Tower (m19) 249
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (ncc) 416
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (snc) 266
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (ncc) 436
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (cmr) 361

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Persisters

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Baleful Ammit

Lifelink When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Baleful Ammit (plst) AKH-79
Chainbreaker

This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it. {3}, {T}: Remove a -1/-1 counter from target creature.

Creature Artifact
Chainbreaker (shm) 249
Cryptic Trilobite

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities. {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Cryptic Trilobite (c20) 21
Crystalline Crawler

Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Crystalline Crawler (c16) 54
Lesser Masticore

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. {4}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. Persist (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 Artifact
Lesser Masticore (mh1) 225
Putrid Goblin

Persist (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
Putrid Goblin (mh1) 101
Spincrusher

Whenever this creature blocks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Spincrusher (dst) 144
Triskelion

This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Triskelion (ddf) 57
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (2xm) 306
Workhorse

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Artifact
Workhorse (plst) EXO-142

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Protection

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Dark Privilege

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Dark Privilege (vis) 56
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (otp) 15
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (ncc) 371
Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Supernatural Stamina (2x2) 93
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (nec) 144
Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (isd) 104
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} 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.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Magus of the Coffers

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

Creature
Magus of the Coffers (plc) 73
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (afc) 211
Rain of Filth

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

Instant
Rain of Filth (usg) 151
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (nec) 161
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plst) C15-55
Thran Dynamo

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (plst) IMA-230

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Culling the Weak

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

Instant
Culling the Weak (mb2) 40
Diabolic Intent

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.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (cma) 54
Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (m21) 96
Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Inquisition of Kozilek (2x2) 80
Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Moonsilver Key (mid) 255
Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Priest of Gix (plst) DDE-7
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (cmm) 972
Sudden Spoiling

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.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsr) 144

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Removal

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Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 389
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
Tragic Slip (plst) C14-167
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Sacrifice Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

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

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Ashnod's Altar

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

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (plst) EMA-218
Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Artifact
Blasting Station (5dn) 107
Bloodthrone Vampire

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

Creature
Bloodthrone Vampire (mm2) 72
Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Spawning Pit

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit. {1}, Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.

Artifact
Spawning Pit (dst) 141
Viscera Seer

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

Creature
Viscera Seer (cmr) 158
Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, 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
Woe Strider (thb) 123

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Agent of the Iron Throne

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever an artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."

Enchantment
Agent of the Iron Throne (clb) 107
Black Sun's Zenith

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

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Defiler of Flesh

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} 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
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Dread Fugue

Cleave {2}{B} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it [with mana value 2 or less]. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Dread Fugue (dbl) 374
Mire's Toll

Target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Mire's Toll (ddr) 55
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (ddd) 55
Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment
Oubliette (plst) 2XM-100
Puppeteer Clique

Flying When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it. Persist (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
Puppeteer Clique (ncc) 257
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Skinrender

When this creature enters, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.

Creature
Skinrender (som) 78
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (dmc) 191
Soulstinger

When this creature enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control. When this creature dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature for each -1/-1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Soulstinger (akh) 108
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. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (eld) 107
Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 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
Victimize (moc) 270
Vindictive Lich

When this creature dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player. • Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Target opponent loses 5 life.

Creature
Vindictive Lich (c17) 21

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Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (m3c) 291
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 (clb) 752
Nowhere to Run

Flash When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
Sacrifice

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

Instant
Sacrifice (spg) 69

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Artificer's Hex

Enchant Equipment At the beginning of your upkeep, if enchanted Equipment is attached to a creature, destroy that creature.

Enchantment
Artificer's Hex (m14) 85
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (c17) 98
Dross Hopper

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Dross Hopper (som) 60
Fallen Ideal

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn." When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Fallen Ideal (c15) 125
Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (mic) 118
Gravelighter

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Gravelighter (neo) 98
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 {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (scd) 80
Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (avr) 111
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (cn2) 143
Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadier. When Nadier leaves the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to its power. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel (cmr) 135
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (afc) 107
Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Instant
Reckless Spite (c21) 151
Rise of the Dread Marn

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn. Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Rise of the Dread Marn (khm) 354
Ruthless Winnower

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a non-Elf creature of their choice.

Creature
Ruthless Winnower (khc) 10
Skeletal Grimace

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "{B}: Regenerate this creature."

Enchantment
Skeletal Grimace (isd) 116
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339
Tatterkite

Flying This creature can't have counters put on it.

Creature Artifact
Tatterkite (shm) 264

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Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245

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Conqueror's Flail

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Conqueror's Flail (2x2) 302
Pilfer

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Pilfer (dmu) 102

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (dmc) 110
Cauldron of Souls

{T}: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Artifact
Cauldron of Souls (plst) CM2-180
Darksteel Plate

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Artifact
Darksteel Plate (2x2) 304
Diabolic Revelation

Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Revelation (m13) 87
Malicious Affliction

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.

Instant
Malicious Affliction (c14) 25
Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (c14) 257
Pact of the Serpent

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Pact of the Serpent (khc) 9

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Beseech the Queen

({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.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Sorcery
Blood Money (clb) 116
Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
Crux of Fate

Choose one — • Destroy all Dragon creatures. • Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Sorcery
Crux of Fate (c17) 107
Defense Grid

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

Artifact
Defense Grid (brr) 13
Distress

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Distress (m12) 94
Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Feral Ghoul

Menace Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, each opponent gets a number of rad counters equal to its power.

Creature
Feral Ghoul (pip) 44
Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
Horizon Stone

If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.

Artifact
Horizon Stone (cmr) 315
Koskun Falls

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you tap an untapped creature you control. Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Koskun Falls (hml) 55
Lethal Vapors

Whenever a creature enters, destroy it. {0}: Destroy this enchantment. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Enchantment
Lethal Vapors (scg) 68
Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature
Liliana's Standard Bearer (moc) 255
Netherborn Altar

{T}, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Netherborn Altar (plst) C20-45
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 308
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 111
Pharika's Libation

Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. • Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Instant
Pharika's Libation (thb) 111
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (gn3) 60
Retribution of the Ancients

{B}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Enchantment
Retribution of the Ancients (ktk) 85
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (znr) 127
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

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Angel of Suffering

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Creature
Angel of Suffering (snc) 67
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

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

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84
Court of Ambition

When this enchantment enters, 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.

Enchantment
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114
Crypt Ghast

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}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Death Denied (plst) MM2-76
Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Deathgreeter (ala) 71
Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (m19) 230
Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dimir House Guard (rav) 83
Disciple of Griselbrand

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Creature
Disciple of Griselbrand (c13) 74
Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (j22) 410
Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (snc) 79
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (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.) When this land enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Innocent Blood

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Sorcery
Innocent Blood (jmp) 244
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one — • Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Sorcery
Mastermind's Acquisition (rix) 77
Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Necrotic Ooze

As long as this creature is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Necrotic Ooze (2x2) 83
Nightmare Unmaking

Choose one — • Exile each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand. • Exile each creature with power less than the number of cards in your hand.

Sorcery
Nightmare Unmaking (ncc) 253
Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134
Professor's Warning

Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Professor's Warning (stx) 84
Recover

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Recover (plst) MM3-82
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
Spectral Searchlight

{T}: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color they choose.

Artifact
Spectral Searchlight (c21) 265
Unmarked Grave

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

Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (2x2) 98
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

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.)

Creature
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 115
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 (scd) 118
Victory Chimes

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step. {T}: A player of your choice adds {C}.

Artifact
Victory Chimes (c21) 274
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (rna) 90
Without Weakness

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Without Weakness (hou) 81

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Arcbound Reclaimer

Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library. Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Reclaimer (dst) 101
Carnifex Demon

Flying This creature enters with two -1/-1 counters on it. {B}, Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature.

Creature
Carnifex Demon (som) 57
Cinderhaze Wretch

{T}: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn. Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.

Creature
Cinderhaze Wretch (shm) 60
Grim Poppet

This creature enters with three -1/-1 counters on it. Remove a -1/-1 counter from this creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature.

Creature Artifact
Grim Poppet (shm) 252
Lingering Tormentor

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Persist (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
Lingering Tormentor (eve) 36
Lunar Avenger

Sunburst (This enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: This creature gains your choice of flying, first strike, or haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Lunar Avenger (plst) 5DN-136
Pith Driller

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature Artifact
Pith Driller (nph) 69
Plague Belcher

Menace When this creature enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Plague Belcher (akh) 104
Soul Snuffers

When Soul Snuffers enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.

Creature
Soul Snuffers (eve) 45
Spinal Parasite

Sunburst (This enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) Remove two +1/+1 counters from this creature: Remove a counter from target permanent.

Creature Artifact
Spinal Parasite (5dn) 155
Wingrattle Scarecrow

This creature has flying as long as you control a blue creature. This creature has persist as long as you control a black creature. (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 Artifact
Wingrattle Scarecrow (shm) 270

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Blood Bairn

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

Creature
Blood Bairn (cma) 49
Bloodflow Connoisseur

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodflow Connoisseur (2x2) 71
Cateran Overlord

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. {6}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 6 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Overlord (mmq) 123
Corpse Blockade

Defender Sacrifice another creature: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Corpse Blockade (gtc) 60
Defiant Salvager

Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Defiant Salvager (cmr) 117
Devouring Strossus

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Devouring Strossus (inv) 101
Devouring Swarm

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

Creature
Devouring Swarm (m12) 91
Falkenrath Torturer

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Falkenrath Torturer (dka) 60
Fallen Angel

Flying Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Fallen Angel (plst) A25-91
Flesh-Eater Imp

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Sacrifice a creature: Flesh-Eater Imp gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Flesh-Eater Imp (mbs) 42
Life Chisel

Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Activate only during your upkeep.

Artifact
Life Chisel (leg) 283
Nantuko Husk

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

Creature
Nantuko Husk (plst) ORI-109
Nim Shambler

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Nim Shambler (mrd) 72
Phyrexian Ghoul

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

Creature
Phyrexian Ghoul (a25) 100
Sadistic Hypnotist

Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Sadistic Hypnotist (plst) ODY-159
Vampire Aristocrat

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

Creature
Vampire Aristocrat (mm3) 86
Vampire Warlord

Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Creature
Vampire Warlord (m14) 120
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.

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (2x2) 99

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Altar's Reap

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

Instant
Altar's Reap (plst) DDR-37
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (voc) 117
Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
Bloodgift Demon

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Bloodgift Demon (scd) 69
Body Count

Spectacle {B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.

Instant
Body Count (ncc) 34
Bushmeat Poacher

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

Creature
Bushmeat Poacher (iko) 77
Costly Plunder

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

Instant
Costly Plunder (2xm) 80
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
Dockside Chef

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

Creature Enchantment
Dockside Chef (neo) 93
Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature
Graveborn Muse (plst) 10E-145
Indulgent Tormentor

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Creature
Indulgent Tormentor (ima) 94
Indulgent Tormentor

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Creature
Indulgent Tormentor (scd) 81
Infernal Tribute

{2}, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Infernal Tribute (wth) 73
Krav, the Unredeemed

Partner with Regna, the Redeemer (When this creature enters, target player may put Regna into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {B}, Sacrifice X creatures: Target player draws X cards and gains X life. Put X +1/+1 counters on Krav.

Creature
Krav, the Unredeemed (bbd) 4
Midnight Reaper

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

Creature
Midnight Reaper (scd) 91
Minions' Murmurs

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Sorcery
Minions' Murmurs (tsr) 124
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (7ed) 149
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
Necropotence (ice) 154
Necrosynthesis

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Necrosynthesis (mid) 115
Promise of Power

Choose one — • You draw five cards and you lose 5 life. • Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Promise of Power (plst) DDC-54
Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 146
Skulltap

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

Sorcery
Skulltap (scg) 73
Skyclave Shadowcat

{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

Creature
Skyclave Shadowcat (znr) 126
Spark Reaper

{3}, Sacrifice a creature or planeswalker: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Spark Reaper (mic) 128
Succumb to Temptation

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Succumb to Temptation (emn) 107
Thallid Soothsayer

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Thallid Soothsayer (dom) 107
Transmogrant's Crown

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw a card. Equip {2} or {B}

Artifact
Transmogrant's Crown (bro) 125
Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Artifact
Witch's Cauldron (m21) 129

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (j22) 809
Black Sun's Zenith

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

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (c14) 136
Blood for Bones

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Blood for Bones (m20) 89
Blood Funnel

Noncreature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell unless you sacrifice a creature.

Enchantment
Blood Funnel (rav) 77
Bog Initiate

{1}: Add {B}.

Creature
Bog Initiate (inv) 95
Bontu's Monument

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.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (clb) 303
Butcher of Malakir

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (clb) 741
Cathodion

When this creature dies, add {C}{C}{C}.

Creature Artifact
Cathodion (2xm) 237
Conspiracy

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Conspiracy (tsb) 39
Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123
Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes. Counter target spell.

Instant
Dash Hopes (plc) 68
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (c17) 111
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (ima) 87
Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Devourer (khm) 90
Dross Scorpion

Whenever this creature or another artifact creature dies, you may untap target artifact.

Creature Artifact
Dross Scorpion (mrd) 164
Flesh Allergy

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures that died this turn.

Sorcery
Flesh Allergy (som) 62
Gift of Doom

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has deathtouch and indestructible. Morph—Sacrifice another creature. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) As this Aura is turned face up, you may attach it to a creature.

Enchantment
Gift of Doom (c19) 17
Glaring Spotlight

Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof. {3}, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Glaring Spotlight (gtc) 229
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (2x2) 76
Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (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.)

Enchantment
Haunted One (clb) 654
Headless Rider

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Headless Rider (vow) 118
Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature Artifact
Illuminor Szeras (40k) 37
Initiates of the Ebon Hand

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

Creature
Initiates of the Ebon Hand (5ed) 169
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (2x2) 2
Last Laugh

Whenever a permanent other than this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. When no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Last Laugh (tor) 68
Leaden Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature Artifact
Leaden Myr (som) 170
Life's Finale

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Life's Finale (nph) 65
Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Artifact
Lithoform Engine (znr) 245
Manalith

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Manalith (m19) 239
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Memorial to Folly (c20) 288
Mind Slash

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Mind Slash (nem) 59
Necrotic Hex

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Necrotic Hex (cmr) 137
Nim Deathmantle

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 this Equipment to it. Equip {4}

Artifact
Nim Deathmantle (2x2) 309
Pact Weapon

As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value. Equip—Discard a card.

Artifact
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
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 {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (c17) 120
Pitiless Plunderer

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

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (plst) RIX-81
Plagued Rusalka

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Plagued Rusalka (jmp) 268
Platinum Angel

Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Creature Artifact
Platinum Angel (plst) CN2-214
Poison the Cup

Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2. Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Poison the Cup (khm) 103
Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Priest of Gix (dde) 7
Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (khm) 244
Sanguinary Priest

Lifelink Blood Chalice — Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Sanguinary Priest (40k) 53
Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Sifter of Skulls (ogw) 77
Skeleton Shard

{3}, {T} or {B}, {T}: Return target artifact creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Skeleton Shard (hop) 127
Skull Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Each opponent who can't loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Skull Storm (c18) 18
Songs of the Damned

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

Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (ncc) 381
The Cruelty of Gix

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card. II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
The Cruelty of Gix (dmu) 87
Traveling Plague

Enchant creature At the beginning of each upkeep, put a plague counter on this Aura. Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each plague counter on this Aura. When enchanted creature leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller returns this Aura from its owner's graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Traveling Plague (ody) 166
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (2x2) 3
Vampire Hexmage

First strike Sacrifice this creature: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Creature
Vampire Hexmage (2xm) 112
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Dead of Winter

All nonsnow creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of snow permanents you control.

Sorcery
Dead of Winter (mh1) 85
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (neo) 102
Leyline of the Void

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (tsr) 326
Merciless Executioner

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

Creature
Merciless Executioner (frf) 76
Persist

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

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 280
Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch. {5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game." Equip {B}{B}

Artifact
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Armor of Shadows (clb) 112
Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Enchantment
Attrition (cmd) 72
Beseech the Mirror

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.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Bone Shards

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

Sorcery
Bone Shards (mh2) 76
Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Bone Splinters (dmu) 83
Defense Grid

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

Artifact
Defense Grid (brr) 76
Grim Servant

Menace When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Grim Servant (mh3) 97
Kaervek, the Spiteful

Other creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Kaervek, the Spiteful (m21) 106
Lake of the Dead

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Land
Lake of the Dead (vma) 302
Nest of Scarabs

Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.

Enchantment
Nest of Scarabs (akh) 101
Night of Souls' Betrayal

All creatures get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Night of Souls' Betrayal (ima) 99
Open the Graves

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
Open the Graves (mic) 126
Ring of Xathrid

{2}: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Xathrid (m13) 215
Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Slaughter Pact (tsr) 138
Sol Talisman

Suspend 3—{1} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Talisman (mh2) 236
Spoils of Evil

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add {C} and you gain 1 life.

Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap this artifact. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life. {3}, {T}: Untap target creature. {4}, {T}: Tap target creature. {5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Artifact
Staff of Domination (cmr) 343
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (2xm) 109
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (c16) 117
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (clb) 344
Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Withering Boon (mir) 152

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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
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Champion's Helm (cmd) 244
Coffin Queen

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

Creature
Coffin Queen (tmp) 114
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity. Equip commander {3} Equip {5}

Artifact
Commander's Plate (cmr) 305
Grim Harvest

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Recover {2}{B} (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Instant
Grim Harvest (plst) CSP-58
Horror of Horrors

Sacrifice a Swamp: Regenerate target black creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Enchantment
Horror of Horrors (9ed) 140
Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Kaya's Ghostform (war) 94
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life. Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.

Creature
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled (2x2) 84
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (jmp) 267
Shade's Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn." When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Shade's Form (tor) 81
Thief of Blood

Flying As this creature enters, remove all counters from all permanents. This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each counter removed this way.

Creature
Thief of Blood (cma) 71
Unhallowed Pact

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Unhallowed Pact (ddr) 64
Volrath the Fallen

{1}{B}, Discard a creature card: Volrath gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.

Creature
Volrath the Fallen (nem) 75

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Relic Vial

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card. As long as you control a Cleric, this artifact has "Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."

Artifact
Relic Vial (znr) 250

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Arcum's Astrolabe

({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.) When this artifact enters, draw a card. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Arcum's Astrolabe (plst) MH1-220
Author of Shadows

When this creature enters, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Author of Shadows (c21) 35
Cabal Conditioning

Any number of target players each discard a number of cards equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Sorcery
Cabal Conditioning (scg) 56
Cabal Ritual

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

Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Cloud Key (tsr) 265
Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a creature. If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

Enchantment
Contamination (usg) 123
Curse of the Cabal

Target player sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice, rounded down. Suspend 2—{2}{B}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if this card is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent of their choice. If the player does, put two time counters on this card.

Sorcery
Curse of the Cabal (tsp) 99
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
Dictate of Erebos

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

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Gate to Phyrexia

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Enchantment
Gate to Phyrexia (atq) 16
Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (cm2) 65
Heartless Act

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Instant
Heartless Act (iko) 91
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (plc) 72
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (plst) TMP-292
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (ima) 95
Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m13) 97
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (clb) 900
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Panharmonicon

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

Artifact
Panharmonicon (2x2) 310
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (uma) 248
Servant of Volrath

When this creature leaves the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Servant of Volrath (tmp) 156
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.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
Shield of Kaldra

Equipment named Sword of Kaldra, Shield of Kaldra, and Helm of Kaldra have indestructible. Equipped creature has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.) Equip {4}

Artifact
Shield of Kaldra (dst) 139
Stromgald Cabal

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

Creature
Stromgald Cabal (6ed) 157
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, 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.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
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 (2xm) 110
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314
Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143

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Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, God of Passage (plst) JOU-146
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature. Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled (thb) 269
Marchesa, the Black Rose

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Other creatures you control have dethrone. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Marchesa, the Black Rose (2x2) 248
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (2xm) 209
Myrkul, Lord of Bones

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Myrkul has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an enchantment and loses all other card types.

Creature
Myrkul, Lord of Bones (clb) 287
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (rna) 212
Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts

Vigilance, protection from creatures Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, destroy that creature. Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts (c21) 230
Volrath, the Shapestealer

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. {1}: Until your next turn, Volrath becomes a copy of target creature with a counter on it, except it's 7/5 and it has this ability.

Creature
Volrath, the Shapestealer (c19) 51

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Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
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.)

Creature
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (cmm) 675
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Breath of the Undying"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nVexHelElEldZodEth, \"Corpse Explosion\" theme, Diablo II inspired necromancer deck, \"Aristocrats\"-style infinite-combo deck - sacrifice/exploit corpses to deal damage.\nThis deck has more ramp (then the deck it's based on) in order to get the commander in play sooner, with added protection. \n\n"},{"insert":{"image":"https://diablo2.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Diablo-2/corpse_explosion_necromancer_skill_diablo_2_resurrected_wiki_guide_132px.png"}},{"insert":" \n\nThe number of combos fluctuates as I change the deck over time (to my enjoyment), but boasts over "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"600 combos"},{"insert":": a quick estimate is to multiply the number of unique cards in the categories \"Combo Win\", \"Persisters\", and \"Sacrifice Outlet\". Strictly speaking, this could be much more because it is a very simple pattern (see "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Playstyle"},{"insert":") with nearly endless options that fit said pattern. In fact, this deck had over 700, but I had to make the deck a bit more consistent to be viable.\n\nIf you have cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Yawgmoth, Thran Physician"}},{"insert":" to deal/negate +1 counters... Any non-human creature can be a \"persister\". Scryfall yields about "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://scryfall.com/search?q=ci%3Ab+f%3Aedh+t%3Acreature+-t%3Ahuman"},"insert":"2700 non-human creatures legal"},{"insert":" in monoblack EDH/commander. Looking at the cards listed here... If we had 8 payoff cards, 27 sacrifice outlets, and 2700 persisters. The math is 8*27*2700 = "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"583200 "},{"insert":"potential combinations already... There are too many combos to fit in one deck. Are these efficient? Probably not...\n\nOther adjustments/compromises were made to balance between price and power. Possible upgrades, alternatives, and maybes are listed.\n\nFor smoother play, it is best to start with 3 lands in hand if possible.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Budget version"},{"insert":" of this deck: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/3060638#Breath_of_the_Undying_Poor"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/3060638#Breath_of_the_Undying_Poor"},{"insert":"\n\nInspired by: \n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/tolariancollege/status/1545540930978979840"},"insert":"https://twitter.com/tolariancollege/status/1545540930978979840"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.facebook.com/reel/2045847635618829"},"insert":"https://www.facebook.com/reel/2045847635618829"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Based on: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/2714180#Undying_Persistence"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/2714180#Undying_Persistence"},{"insert":"\nReference: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/9sbpgg/need_help_with_infinite_persist_combo_deck_atraxa/"},"insert":"https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/9sbpgg/need_help_with_infinite_persist_combo_deck_atraxa/"},{"insert":"\nVarious internet searches from TappedOut, MTGSalvation, Reddit and other mono-black Mikaeus deck on Archidekt.\n\nNote: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dead of Winter"}},{"insert":" + 27 "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Snow-Covered Swamp"}},{"insert":"s was replaced with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Killing Wave"}},{"insert":" + normal "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Swamp"}},{"insert":"s purely for a sensible price reduction, since it was the only snow permanent synergy in the entire deck. Alternatively, it might be equivalent in price to just getting a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Damnation"}},{"insert":", since practically, snow swamps sell for more than 80 cents each... That said, this deck is more about going for the win fast than worrying about clearing the board.\n\nPlaystyle"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The idea is to inifinte sacrifice persisters to ping for "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"infinite damage, life gain, mill or zombie/spawn tokens"},{"insert":" depending on the combination of cards played. There are 3 main components: Mikaeus (commander), a sacrifice outlet, and a persister. These together will enable you to go infinite with ETB/LTB things. However, possibly a fourth card is needed to cause damage ping or mill (a.k.a. \"pinger\" or \"Combo Win\"), etc. That said, there is at least one 2-card win combo: the infamous Mikaeus & Triskelion combo. \n\nPieces of the combo have been labelled accordingly as \"Persisters\", \"Sacrifice Outlet\", and \"Combo Win\". The focus of the \"Protection\" cards is the commander "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mikaeus, the Unhallowed"}},{"insert":". Cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Undying Malice"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Supernatural Stamina"}},{"insert":" can be used as combat/bait tricks for removal spells from your opponents.\n\nThe key to reach an earlier win is to prioritize the next combo piece missing from the battlefield, instead of playing an additional sacrifice outlet, persister, or pinger/\"combo win\" card when possible. A win as early as turn 1 (depending on cards chosen) is possible, but averages a win around turn 6 to 9... nice. Many tutors have been avoided to make the deck not too strong.\n\nAnswers to Counterspells"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Black doesn't have as many options as other colors when it comes to counterspells (say towards "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mikaeus, the Unhallowed"}},{"insert":"), but there are some options.\n[Reactive] Change the target of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Counterspell"}},{"insert":" with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Imp's Mischief"}},{"insert":" so that Imp's Mischief gets countered and not the original spell you were playing."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[Proactive] Use cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cavern of Souls"}},{"insert":" to make your spell uncounterable."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[Proactive] The classic black response is to use discard spells like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Duress"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thoughtseize"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inquisition of Kozilek"}},{"insert":", etc."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nExample of a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"turn 2 win"},{"insert":":"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Starting hand: Swamp, Swamp, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sol Ring"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dark Ritual"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heartless Summoning"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Walking Ballista"}},{"insert":", whatever 7th card (maybe "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Undying Malice"}},{"insert":")\nTurn 1:\nPlay Swamp."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Tap the swamp, play Sol Ring"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Turn 2:\nPlay Swamp, tap it, tap Sol Ring, cast Heartless Summoning, floating 1 colorless mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Tap the 2nd swamp and cast Dark Ritual. Now floating 1 colorless and 3 black mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mikaeus, the Unhallowed"}},{"insert":" (reduced to cmc of 4)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Walking Ballista for 0. It dies due to state-based actions (-1/-1 from Heartless Summoning, +1/+1 from Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, final toughness 0/0)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"It comes back with a +1/+1 counter from Undying. Remove the +1/1 to hit any target. It dies again, repeat."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nExamples of "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"turn 1 win"},{"insert":"s:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Here are some examples of possible ways to win on turn 1, these are however are probably not in the deck above and require the opening perfect hand.\nNote: you could use "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mana Vault"}},{"insert":" instead of Sol Ring in some of these, but it is not required.\n(Before Commander 2024 Ban) The above turn-2 win can become a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"turn 1 win"},{"insert":" by replacing a swamp with a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jeweled Lotus"}},{"insert":". Play these cards in the following order: Swamp, Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, Heartless Summoning, Jeweled Lotus, Mikaeus, Walking Ballista. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Budget version of the above): Swamp, Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, Heartless Summoning, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Priest of Gix"}},{"insert":", Mikaeus, Walking Ballista."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Without Heartless Summoning): Swamp, Dark Ritual, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ornithopter"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Culling the Weak"}},{"insert":", Sol Ring, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Viscera Seer"}},{"insert":", Mikaeus, Walking Ballista."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Without Walking Ballista or Sol Ring): Swamp, Dark Ritual, Heartless Summoning, Priest of Gix, Culling the Weak, Mikaeus, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Altar of the Brood"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cryptic Trilobite"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Without Dark Ritual or Sol Ring): Swamp, Ornithopter, Culling the Weak, Heartless Summoning, Priest of Gix, Mikaeus, Walking Ballista."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Without Culling the Weak): Swamp, Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, Heartless Summoning, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth"}},{"insert":", Priest of Gix, Mikaeus, Walking Ballista."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(With Triskelion and requires 8 cards): Swamp, Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, K'rrik, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Putrid Imp"}},{"insert":", discard "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Triskelion"}},{"insert":", Culling the Weak on Putrid Imp, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reanimate"}},{"insert":" Triskelion to the battlefield, Mikaeus."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Moonsilver Key as a \"Key\" Tutor"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The card "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moonsilver Key"}},{"insert":" can be used to tutor for an \"artifact card with a mana ability\", that means cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Phyrexian Altar"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Crystalline Crawler"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Workhorse"}},{"insert":" , or even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sol Ring"}},{"insert":" (don't I'm kidding). That is the choice of at least 2 persisters or 2 sacrifice outlets.\n\nExample Combo with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soulstinger"}},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is a fragile combo, but is versatile in terms of card choices. The sacrifice can be any card that has additional benefits not considered in the combo example below. The creature to sacrifice could be almost any creature. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/17nq6ay"},"insert":"https://www.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/17nq6ay"},{"insert":"\n\nPermanents on the battlefield: \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mikaeus, the Unhallowed"}},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soulstinger"}},{"insert":" (played with two -1/-1 counters)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Viscera Seer"}},{"insert":" (or any sacrifice outlet)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vindictive Lich"}},{"insert":" (could be another creature with the desired ETB/LTB effects)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSteps\nSacrifice Vindictive Lich having it return with a +1/+1 counter from undying."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Sacrifice Soulstinger putting all the -1/-1 counter on Vindictive Lich, killing and returning Vindictive Lich with +1/+1 counter. As Soulstinger returns with a +1/+1 counter from undying, put the two -1/-1 counters on it."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Sacrifice Soulstinger again putting the -1/-1 counter onto Vindictive Lich, and returning Soulstinger again with a -1/-1 counter (undying and two -1/-1 counters)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Repeat from step 1."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nResults\nInfinite ETB"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Infinite discard triggers"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Infinite sacrifice triggers"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Infinite lifeloss for opponents"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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