Persistent Specimen

{2}{B}: Return Persistent Specimen from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Cauldron's Gift

Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, mill four cards.
You may choose a creature card in your graveyard. If you do, return it to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Swamp

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress

Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{3}{B}, {T}: Put a shadow counter on target creature. For as long as that creature has a shadow counter on it, it's a Wraith in addition to its other types. (A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Lord of the Void

Flying
Whenever Lord of the Void deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

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 Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Plaguecrafter

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

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 has every creature type.)

Mastermind Plum

Whenever Mastermind Plum attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If an artifact card was exiled this way, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Corpses of the Lost

Skeletons you control get +1/+0 and have haste.
When Corpses of the Lost enters, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token.
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return Corpses of the Lost to its owner's hand. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Arcane Signet

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

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

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.)

Morbid Opportunist

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

Xander's Pact

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to that spell's mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Sidisi, Undead Vizier exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Dockside Chef

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

Nephalia Academy

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, you may reveal that card and put it on top of your library instead of putting it anywhere else.
{T}: Add {C}.

Liliana's Devotee

Zombies you control get +1/+0.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Falkenrath Noble

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

Infernal Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards.
Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Ghoulish Procession

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox, the Mind Flail isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: 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.

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Thought Vessel

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

Nightmare Shepherd

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Exsanguinate

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

Old Flitterfang

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Old Flitterfang gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Ruthless Technomancer

When Ruthless Technomancer enters, you may sacrifice another creature you control. If you do, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to that creature's power.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice X artifacts: Return target creature card with power X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. X can't be 0.

Extinguish All Hope

Blade of the Oni

Menace
Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5, has menace, and is a black Demon in addition to its other colors and types.
Reconfigure {2}{B}{B} ({2}{B}{B}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Drana, the Last Bloodchief

Flying
Whenever Drana, the Last Bloodchief attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji, the Midnight Sky 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.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

Liliana, Heretical Healer

Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Moriok Replica

{1}{B}, Sacrifice Moriok Replica: You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Gravelighter

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

Rakshasa Debaser

Whenever Rakshasa Debaser attacks, put target creature card from defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Encore {6}{B}{B} ({6}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sol Ring

Nirkana Revenant

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

Hive of the Eye Tyrant

If you control two or more other lands, Hive of the Eye Tyrant enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{3}{B}: Until end of turn, Hive of the Eye Tyrant becomes a 3/3 black Beholder creature with menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard." It's still a land.

Hero's Downfall

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.

Dictate of Erebos

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

Dreadhound

When Dreadhound enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Okiba Salvage

Return target creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then put two +1/+1 counters on that permanent if you control an artifact and an enchantment.

Blood Curdle

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Disciple of Bolas

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

Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Westvale Abbey

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform Westvale Abbey, then untap it.

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Ebondeath, Dracolich

Flash
Flying
Ebondeath, Dracolich enters tapped.
You may cast Ebondeath, Dracolich from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void 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.

Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Ray of Ruin

Exile target creature, Vehicle, or nonbasic land. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.)

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Sarevok, Deathbringer

At the beginning of each player's end step, if no permanents left the battlefield this turn, that player loses X life, where X is Sarevok's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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.

Skyclave Shade

Kicker {2}{B}
Skyclave Shade can't block.
If Skyclave Shade was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if Skyclave Shade is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Grave Pact

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

Temple of the False God

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

Village Rites

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

Gelatinous Cube

Engulf — When Gelatinous Cube enters, exile target non-Ooze creature an opponent controls until Gelatinous Cube leaves the battlefield.
Dissolve — {X}{B}: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Gelatinous Cube into its owner's graveyard.

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Mukotai Soulripper

Whenever Mukotai Soulripper attacks, you may sacrifice another artifact or creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Mukotai Soulripper and it gains menace until end of turn.
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Skeleton Crew

Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1.
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.)
{5}{B}: Return Skeleton Crew from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Liliana, the Last Hope

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.
−2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control."

Reassembling Skeleton

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

Eradicator Valkyrie

Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers
Boast — {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)