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Commander

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Ghoulcaller Gisa
,
, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Ghoulcaller Gisa (c14) 23

Commander

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Card Advantage

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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 - Nightmare
Dread Presence (m20) 96
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
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
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 (5ed) 182
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (ema) 100
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (cn2) 144
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (ori) 114
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (c14) 268
Smothering Abomination
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.
Creature - Eldrazi
Smothering Abomination (bfz) 99
Undead Augur
Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Undead Augur (mh1) 112
Wretched Confluence
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Wretched Confluence (c15) 23
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (mh1) 116

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Land

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Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (wc99) kb315
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (cma) 243
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (tor) 139
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
Crypt of Agadeem
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Land
Crypt of Agadeem (c14) 288
Deserted Temple
: Add
.
,
: Untap target land.
Land
Deserted Temple (ody) 320
Field of the Dead
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Ghost Quarter
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Ghost Quarter (c14) 298
Hall of the Bandit Lord
Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped.
, Pay 3 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.
Legendary Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (chk) 277
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (mmq) 320
Memorial to Folly
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Memorial to Folly (dom) 242
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (c18) 269
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Legendary Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Petrified Field
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Petrified Field (ody) 323
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (wc00) nl322
Snow-Covered Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Swamp
Snow-Covered Swamp (mh1) 252
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (gk2) 78
Tectonic Edge
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.
Land
Tectonic Edge (c14) 313
Terrain Generator
: Add
.
,
: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Land
Terrain Generator (nem) 143
Thespian's Stage
: Add
.
,
: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.
Land
Thespian's Stage (uma) 253
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254
Vesuva
You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.
Land
Vesuva (tsp) 281
Volrath's Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Volrath's Stronghold (wc98) bs143
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
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 - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Ramp

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Black Market
Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add
for each charge counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Black Market (c15) 116
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
Caged Sun (c14) 233
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
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (mm2) 213
Heraldic Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (c14) 243
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
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (c19) 18
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 '
: Add
.'"
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m14) 102
Navigation Orb
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
Patriar's Seal
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Untap target legendary creature you control.
Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Skyclave Relic
Kicker

Indestructible
When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Skyclave Relic (moc) 380
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (cmd) 261
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 - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (c14) 271
Unstable Obelisk
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target permanent.
Artifact
Unstable Obelisk (c14) 58
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (5dn) 165

Ramp

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Recursion

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Corpse Dance
Buyback
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Corpse Dance (tmp) 116
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, Whispering One (ima) 108
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
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110

Recursion

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Removal

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Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (mm3) 63
Decree of Pain
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Decree of Pain (scg) 64
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Dictate of Erebos
Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (jou) 65
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 (znr) 102
Finale of Eternity
Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Finale of Eternity (war) 91
Force of Despair
If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.
Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (c17) 114
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (hop) 28
Mutilate
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Sorcery
Mutilate (c14) 150
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 (c13) 96

Removal

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Sac Outlets

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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 (cns) 196
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (ema) 218
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306

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Sac Targets

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Champion of the Perished
Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Champion of the Perished (pmid) 91s
Desecration Elemental
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.
Creature - Elemental
Desecration Elemental (5dn) 45
Dreadhorde Invasion
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.
Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (war) 86
Gravecrawler
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Creature - Zombie
Gravecrawler (pdka) 64★
Kokusho, the Evening Star
Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Kokusho, the Evening Star (mma) 89
Phyrexian Dreadnought
Trample
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater.
Creature Artifact - Dreadnought Phyrexian
Phyrexian Dreadnought (mir) 315
Phyrexian Soulgorger
Cumulative upkeep—Sacrifice a creature. (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.)
Snow Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian
Phyrexian Soulgorger (csp) 141
Wurmcoil Engine
Deathtouch, lifelink
When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.
Creature Artifact - Wurm Phyrexian
Wurmcoil Engine (c14) 283

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Tap Abusers

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Illusionist's Bracers
Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Illusionist's Bracers (gtc) 231
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (c16) 260
Sting, the Glinting Dagger
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste.
At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature.
Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Sting, the Glinting Dagger (ltr) 250
Thornbite Staff
Equipped creature has "
,
: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature."
Whenever a Shaman creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip
Artifact Kindred - Equipment Shaman
Thornbite Staff (mor) 145
Thousand-Year Elixir
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
,
: Untap target creature.
Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (cma) 236

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Win Conditions

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (c17) 99
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (som) 61
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
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 (hou) 77
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (bfz) 126

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Maybeboard

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (m3c) 283
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 669
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (tdc) 316
Dark Tutelage
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Endless Atlas
,
: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.
Artifact
Endless Atlas (cmm) 947
Lethal Scheme
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Instant
Lethal Scheme (msc) 157
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 385
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (soc) 219
Necrodominance
Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Legendary Enchantment
Necrodominance (mh3) 102
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
,
, 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.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric Elf
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 146
Skeletal Scrying
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.
Instant
Skeletal Scrying (plst) C14-162
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (fic) 285
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
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (c17) 226
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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