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Darkness Falls
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $331.80
Salt sum: 40.39
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Commander

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Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample Ward—Discard a card. Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Creature
Maha, Its Feathers Night (blb) 289

Commander

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Interaction

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Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Cruelclaw's Heist

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.) Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. If the gift was promised, you may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Sorcery
Cruelclaw's Heist (blb) 88
Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (otc) 134
Fell

Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Fell (blb) 95
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Sickening Shoal

You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Sickening Shoal (bok) 82
Subtle Strike

Choose one or both — • Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Instant
Subtle Strike (plst) KLD-100

Interaction

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Recursion

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Sam's Desperate Rescue

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you.

Sorcery
Sam's Desperate Rescue (ltr) 105

Recursion

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"Drain" effects

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Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (avr) 86
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (mkc) 141

"Drain" effects

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (blc) 294
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
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}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Spymaster's Vault

Spymaster's Vault enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: 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) 358
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 273
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (m15) 248

Land

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Tutor

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Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Sorcery
Dark Petition (ori) 90
Grim Servant

Menace When Grim Servant enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Grim Servant (mh3) 409

Tutor

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Big Mana

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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}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 322
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.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Nirkana Revenant

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

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134

Big Mana

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Multi-Purpose

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Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (plst) CM2-178
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Gruesome Realization

Choose one — • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Gruesome Realization (bro) 103
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (mkc) 130
Troll of Khazad-dûm

Troll of Khazad-dûm can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Troll of Khazad-dûm (ltr) 111
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 (ths) 110

Multi-Purpose

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Board Wipe

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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.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (blc) 182
Doomwake Giant

Constellation — Whenever Doomwake Giant or another enchantment you control enters, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Doomwake Giant (cmm) 865
Feast of Succession

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn. You become the monarch.

Sorcery
Feast of Succession (cmm) 158
Mephitic Vapors

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Mephitic Vapors (rvr) 85
Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence. {B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment
Pestilence (plst) USG-147
Plague Engineer

Deathtouch As Plague Engineer enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

Creature
Plague Engineer (mh1) 100
Plague Spitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. When Plague Spitter dies, it deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature
Plague Spitter (j22) 456
Shrivel

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Shrivel (mm2) 95
The Black Breath

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Sorcery
The Black Breath (ltr) 78
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 (mh3) 277

Board Wipe

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Protection

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Abnormal Endurance

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."

Instant
Abnormal Endurance (m19) 85
Ashnod's Intervention

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand."

Instant
Ashnod's Intervention (bro) 85
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 token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (otj) 87
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."

Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 267
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.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
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."

Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmm) 188
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 58

Protection

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Card Draw

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Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Foreboding Fruit

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
Foreboding Fruit (eld) 88
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (7ed) 140
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (p30a) 20
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Creature
Massacre Girl, Known Killer (mkm) 94
Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (blc) 183
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (cmm) 182
Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard. You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Rowan's Grim Search (woe) 104
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
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 (blb) 114

Card Draw

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (p30m) 1P
Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (5ed) 153
Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When Extraplanar Lens enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 381
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (blc) 269
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plg22) 2

Ramp

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