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.

Ihsan's Shade

Perilous Shadow

{1}{B}: Perilous Shadow gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Mire Shade

{B}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mire Shade. Activate only as a sorcery.

Arguel's Blood Fast

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

Temple of Aclazotz

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz

Bad Moon

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Soul Conduit

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

Vampiric Link

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Intimidation

Creatures you control have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Cabal Stronghold

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

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

Dead of Winter

All nonsnow creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of snow permanents you control.

Heraldic Banner

As Heraldic Banner enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Demonic Embrace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.
You may cast Demonic Embrace from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Snow-Covered Swamp

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.

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.

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

Cabal Coffers

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

Zuran Orb

Greed

Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.
{B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards.
{B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Lightning Greaves

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

Mind Stone

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

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Sol Ring

Charcoal Diamond

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

Commander's Sphere

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

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Evernight Shade

{B}: Evernight Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Undying (When this creature 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.)

Nantuko Shade

{B}: Nantuko Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Nightwing Shade

Flying
{1}{B}: Nightwing Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Gateway Shade

{B}: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Liliana's Shade

When Liliana's Shade enters, you may search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{B}: Liliana's Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Drifting Shade

Flying
{B}: Drifting Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Crypt Ripper

Haste
{B}: Crypt Ripper gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Looming Shade

{B}: Looming Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Slithering Shade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{B}: Slithering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Hellbent — Slithering Shade can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you have no cards in hand.

Undercity Shade

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{B}: Undercity Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Whispering Shade

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
{B}: Whispering Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Nakaya Shade

{B}: Nakaya Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

Deepwood Legate

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
{B}: Deepwood Legate gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Darkling Stalker

{B}: Regenerate Darkling Stalker.
{B}: Darkling Stalker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Fetid Horror

{B}: Fetid Horror gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Dread Shade

{B}: Dread Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Thirsting Shade

Lifelink
{2}{B}: Thirsting Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Dungeon Shade

Flying
{B}: Dungeon Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Mutilate

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

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

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}.

Magus of the Coffers

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Paragon of Open Graves

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}: Another target black creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Zof Shade

{2}{B}: Zof Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Archetype of Finality

Creatures you control have deathtouch.
Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Chilling Shade

Flying
{S}: Chilling Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

Drain Life

Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Bubbling Muck

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

Scent of Nightshade

Reveal any number of black cards in your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Rain of Filth

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add {B}."

Frozen Shade

{B}: Frozen Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Hoar Shade

{B}: Hoar Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Veiled Shade

{1}{B}: Veiled Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Tendrils of Corruption

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

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Dark Ritual

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Doom Blade

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Defile

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

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Feed the Swarm

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

Go for the Throat

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.

Nightmare Lash

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip—Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Strata Scythe

Imprint — When Strata Scythe enters, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
Equip {3}

Ring of Xathrid

{2}: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Hall of Triumph

As Hall of Triumph enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip {3}

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Inquisitor's Flail

If equipped creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead.
If another creature would deal combat damage to equipped creature, it deals double that damage to equipped creature instead.
Equip {2}

Jerren, Corrupted Bishop

Whenever Jerren, Corrupted Bishop enters or another nontoken Human you control dies, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
{2}: Target Human you control gains lifelink until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life, you may pay {4}{B}{B}. If you do, transform Jerren.

Ormendahl, the Corrupter

Flying, trample, lifelink
Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card.

Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

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