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Commander

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The Scarab God
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - God
The Scarab God (2xm) 216

Commander

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Card Draw

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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 (acr) 87
Harmonized Crescendo
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.)
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Instant
Harmonized Crescendo (ecl) 408
Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
Ninjutsu
(
, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
During your turn, as long as Kaito has one or more loyalty counters on him, he's a 3/4 Ninja creature and has hexproof.
+1: You get an emblem with "Ninjas you control get +1/+1."
0: Surveil 2. Then draw a card for each opponent who lost life this turn.
−2: Tap target creature. Put two stun counters on it.
Legendary Planeswalker - Kaito
Kaito, Bane of Nightmares (dsk) 354
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (pw24) 18
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
Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (soa) 99

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Interaction

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Bitter Triumph
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Boggart Trawler
When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.
Creature - Goblin
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Ravenous Chupacabra
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Creature - Beast Horror
Ravenous Chupacabra (pw23) 10
Shriekmaw
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Shriekmaw (afc) 110
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65
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 (mkc) 142
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
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
Clearwater Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (c18) 240
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (mkc) 257
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (c16) 290
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Fountainport
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
,
: Create a Treasure token.
Land
Fountainport (blb) 253
Gloomlake Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.
Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (akh) 251
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 603
Muraganda Raceway
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
: Add
.
Max speed —
: Add
.
Land
Muraganda Raceway (dft) 257
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (ncc) 431
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |
,
, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Susur Secundi, Void Altar (eoe) 259
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (akh) 252
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (woc) 169
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (bro) 300
Unholy Grotto
: Add
.
,
: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land
Unholy Grotto (drc) 182
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (peoe) 261s

Land

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Mill Synergies

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Mesmeric Orb
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Wonder
Flying
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.
Creature - Incarnation
Wonder (mh2) 271

Mill Synergies

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Protection

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Lazotep Plating
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.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Lazotep Plating (war) 59
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (otc) 260
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 (c14) 275

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmr) 297
Charcoal Diamond
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (cmr) 303
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 (rvr) 70
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (c18) 203
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (ncc) 367
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (c21) 251
Patchwork Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (cm2) 217
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 (c20) 253
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mrd) 253
The Soul Stone
Indestructible
: Add
.
,
, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone
The Soul Stone (spm) 66
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 (clb) 344
Worn Powerstone
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add
.
Artifact
Worn Powerstone (scd) 288

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Scarab God Synergies

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Gisa, the Hellraiser
Ward—
, Pay 2 life.
Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace.
Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Gisa, the Hellraiser (otj) 89
Peregrine Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Creature - Drake
Peregrine Drake (usg) 88
Sword of Feast and Famine
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Sword of Feast and Famine (2xm) 296
Training Grounds
Activated abilities of creatures you control cost
less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.
Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 109
Twilight Prophet
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Twilight Prophet (rix) 88

Scarab God Synergies

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Zombies

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Bladestitched Skaab
Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Bladestitched Skaab (mid) 212
Cemetery Reaper
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Zombie
Cemetery Reaper (mic) 108
Champion of Wits
When this creature enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards.
Eternalize
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Wizard Snake
Champion of Wits (hou) 31
Cryptbreaker
,
, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Zombie
Cryptbreaker (emn) 86
Death Baron
Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Death Baron (mic) 111
Diregraf Captain
Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Diregraf Captain (dka) 135
Diregraf Colossus
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard.
Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Zombie Giant
Diregraf Colossus (mic) 112
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
Zombies you control have flying.
,
, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher (vow) 319
Gleaming Overseer
When this creature enters, 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.)
Zombie tokens you control have hexproof and menace.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Gleaming Overseer (war) 198
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 - Spirit Zombie
Graveborn Muse (lgn) 73
Gravecrawler
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Creature - Zombie
Gravecrawler (2x2) 78
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
Liliana's Mastery
Zombies you control get +1/+1.
When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Enchantment
Liliana's Mastery (akh) 98
Lord of the Accursed
Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
,
: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.
Creature - Zombie
Lord of the Accursed (akh) 99
Lord of the Undead
Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1.
,
: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie
Lord of the Undead (pls) 44
Metallic Mimic
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature 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.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter
Metallic Mimic (lcc) 308
Midnight Reaper
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Midnight Reaper (grn) 77
Murderous Rider
Lifelink
When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Murderous Rider // Swift End (eld) 97
Tomebound Lich
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Tomebound Lich (m20) 219
Undead Augur
Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Undead Augur (mh1) 112
Undead Warchief
Zombie spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.
Creature - Zombie
Undead Warchief (scg) 78
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, if it didn't have decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a Zombie. If you do, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Zombie
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (omic) 2
Zombie Master
Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "
: Regenerate this permanent."
Creature - Zombie
Zombie Master (mb2) 188

Zombies

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Acquireboard

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Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254

Acquireboard

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Maybeboard

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Crypt of Agadeem
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Land
Crypt of Agadeem (tdc) 354

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