Capital Punishment

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for death or taxes. Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice for each death vote and discards a card for each taxes vote.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Guul Draz Assassin

Level up {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
2/2
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
LEVEL 4+
4/4
{B}, {T}: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Icon of Ancestry

As Icon of Ancestry enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Cruel Sadist

{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: It deals X damage to target creature.

Hero's Downfall

Garza's Assassin

Sacrifice Garza's Assassin: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Doom Blade

Pack's Disdain

Choose a creature type. Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each permanent of the chosen type you control.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Nekrataal

First strike
When Nekrataal enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Royal Assassin

Scarblade Elite

{T}, Exile an Assassin card from your graveyard: Destroy target creature.

Belbe's Portal

As Belbe's Portal enters, choose a creature type.
{3}, {T}: You may put a creature card of the chosen type from your hand onto the battlefield.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls 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.

Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

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.

Eyeblight Assassin

When Eyeblight Assassin enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters, choose a creature type.
Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Assassin's Blade

Cast this spell only during the declare attackers step and only if you've been attacked this step.
Destroy target nonblack attacking creature.

Wei Assassins

When Wei Assassins enters, target opponent chooses a creature they control. Destroy that creature.

Agent of the Fates

Deathtouch
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Agent of the Fates, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Virtus the Veiled

Partner with Gorm the Great (When this creature enters, target player may put Gorm into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Deathtouch
Whenever Virtus the Veiled deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Vorpal Sword

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

Silumgar Assassin

Creatures with power greater than Silumgar Assassin's power can't block it.
Megamorph {2}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Silumgar Assassin is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 3 or less an opponent controls.

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.

Weed-Pruner Poplar

At the beginning of your upkeep, target creature other than Weed-Pruner Poplar gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Stronghold Assassin

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

Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch
When Thorn of the Black Rose enters, you become the monarch.

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."

Big Game Hunter

When Big Game Hunter enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated.
Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Feed the Swarm

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

Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Silent Assassin

{3}{B}: Destroy target blocking creature at end of combat.

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Nightshade Assassin

First strike
When Nightshade Assassin enters, you may reveal X black cards in your hand. If you do, target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Thrill-Kill Assassin

Deathtouch
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Ultimate Price

Xathrid Slyblade

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
{3}{B}: Until end of turn, Xathrid Slyblade loses hexproof and gains first strike and deathtouch. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike. Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it.
Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Notorious Assassin

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Cover of Darkness

As Cover of Darkness enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Cabal Coffers

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

Go for the Throat

Sol Ring

Mortuary Mire

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

Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

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.

Village Rites

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

Dark Impostor

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.
Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

Orzhov Euthanist

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.)
When Orzhov Euthanist enters or the creature it haunts dies, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{T}: 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.)

Assassinate

Black Market

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

Desert of the Glorified

Desert of the Glorified enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Serpent Assassin

When Serpent Assassin enters, you may destroy target nonblack creature.

Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Kiku, Night's Flower

{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain 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.

Screams from Within

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1.
When enchanted creature dies, return Screams from Within from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Murder

Ruthless Ripper

Deathtouch
Morph—Reveal a black card in your hand. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When Ruthless Ripper is turned face up, target player loses 2 life.

Throne of Empires

{1}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. Create five of those tokens instead if you control artifacts named Crown of Empires and Scepter of Empires.

Swamp

Door of Destinies

As Door of Destinies enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.