Viconia, Drow Apostate

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard, return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Elder Brain

Menace
Whenever Elder Brain attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Swamp

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Nirkana Revenant

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

Charcoal Diamond

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

Doom Blade

Swiftfoot Boots

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

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

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.

Dark Ritual

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Pact of the Serpent

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Skeleton Key

Equipped creature has skulk. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {2}

Awaken the Erstwhile

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then creates that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Battle-Rage Blessing

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

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.

Lich's Mastery

Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Midnight Reaper deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Read the Bones

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

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.)

Greed

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Clockwork Fox

When Clockwork Fox leaves the battlefield, you draw two cards and each opponent draws a card.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Sorin the Mirthless

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.
−2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink.
−7: Sorin the Mirthless deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

Decanter of Endless Water

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

Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Temple Bell

Shadow-Rite Priest

Other Clerics you control get +1/+1.
{3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another Cleric: Search your library for a black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Fates' Reversal

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: 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.

Sanguine Bond

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

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Engineered Plague

As Engineered Plague enters, choose a creature type.
All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.

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.)

Sudden Edict

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Target player sacrifices a creature.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Activated Sleeper

Flash
You may have Activated Sleeper enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, except it's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

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.)

From Under the Floorboards

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sickening Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Bone Shards

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Evolved Sleeper

{B}: Evolved Sleeper becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.
{1}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
{1}{B}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Crawl from the Cellar

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target Zombie you control.
Flashback {3}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Myojin of Grim Betrayal

Myojin of Grim Betrayal enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Grim Betrayal: Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from anywhere this turn.

Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Transmogrant's Crown

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw a card.
Equip {2} or {B}

Defile

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

The Cruelty of Gix

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Ob Nixilis's Cruelty

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip {3}

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

Underworld Connections

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

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

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.

Sol Ring

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.

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {2}

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

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.)

Vampire Scrivener

Flying
Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.
Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vampire Scrivener.

Thought Vessel

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

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

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