Ashnod's Altar

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Dance of the Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

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.)

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.)

Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Sol Ring

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When Necromancy enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

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.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne 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.

Thought Vessel

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

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

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.

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} 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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
{3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Invoke Despair

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

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Presumed Dead

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control and suspect it." (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Dark Ritual

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Shambling Ghast

When Shambling Ghast dies, choose one —
• Brave the Stench — Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Search the Body — Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Swamp

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Grave Pact

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

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker.

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.)

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Morbid Curiosity

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw cards equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.

Feign Death

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."

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Arcane Signet

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

Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

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 that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Undying Malice

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.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.