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Catacumba Essentia
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Commander

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Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Vigilance, menace Whenever you attack, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, Zombies you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Temmet, Naktamun's Will (drc) 4

Commander

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Land

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Accursed Duneyard

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Accursed Duneyard (drc) 20
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (hop) 132
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) 269
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
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
Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (inr) 276
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. 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
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) 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
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (bbd) 83
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (c20) 298
Phyrexian Tower

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

Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c20) 301
Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (bbd) 84
Secluded Courtyard

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 or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (fdn) 267
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) 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
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (2xm) 377
Unclaimed Territory

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.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) 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
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Unholy Grotto

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

Land
Unholy Grotto (ons) 327
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
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
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259

Land

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Artifact

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Akroma's Memorial

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

Artifact
Akroma's Memorial (tsr) 262
Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 352
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact 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.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (xln) 251
Wand of Orcus

Whenever equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies you control gain deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Equip {3}

Artifact
Wand of Orcus (afc) 28
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.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

Artifact

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Planeswalker

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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.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (war) 97

Planeswalker

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Creature

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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 (dsc) 243
Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Cemetery Reaper (m12) 86
Cryptbreaker

{1}{B}, {T}, 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
Cryptbreaker (drc) 41
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
Death Baron (m19) 90
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
Diregraf Colossus (soi) 107
Dockside Chef

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

Creature Enchantment
Dockside Chef (neo) 93
Geralf, the Fleshwright

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token. Whenever a Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Creature
Geralf, the Fleshwright (otj) 50
Ghoulcaller Gisa

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Ghoulcaller Gisa (cmm) 161
God-Eternal Oketra

Double strike Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance. When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Oketra (war) 16
Grave Titan

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature
Grave Titan (plst) C14-145
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
Gravecrawler

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (drc) 43
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Grimgrin enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Creature
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (isd) 214
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.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Accursed (gn2) 32
Lord of the Undead

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lord of the Undead (10e) 155
Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, return it to its owner's hand. When this creature dies, you may pay {X}. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Relentless Dead (soi) 131
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
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. {2}{U}{B}: 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.

Creature
The Scarab God (hou) 145
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) 569
Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (drc) 100
Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature
Undead Warchief (hop) 44
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.

Creature
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (mic) 40
Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature
Zombie Master (drc) 46
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.) {T}: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord (fdn) 77

Creature

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Sorcery

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (pip) 156
Kindred Dominance

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

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (c17) 18

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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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 (isd) 99
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
Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (lcc) 159
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (cmm) 37
Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie you control enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Enchantment
Necroduality (vow) 70
On Wings of Gold

Creatures you control that are Zombies and/or tokens get +1/+1 and have flying. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 white Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
On Wings of Gold (drc) 5
Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (lcc) 168
Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (isd) 71
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22

Enchantment

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Instant

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soi) 242
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (plst) CMA-30
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (plst) A25-50
Dawn's Truce

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 9
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (c20) 209
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
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) 107
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (woe) 33
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

Instant

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