Underworld Dreams

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

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {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.)

Geth's Verdict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 1 life.

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Geralf's Messenger

Geralf's Messenger enters tapped.
When Geralf's Messenger enters, target opponent loses 2 life.
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.)

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Swamp

Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.
{3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Gatekeeper of Malakir

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.)
When Gatekeeper of Malakir enters, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature.

Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.

Phyrexian Tower

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

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Dark Ritual

Bojuka Bog

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

Culling the Weak

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

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Cabal Stronghold

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

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Phage the Untouchable

When Phage the Untouchable enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

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.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Bubbling Muck

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

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Defile

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

Cabal Coffers

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

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 Mire

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

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Grave Pact

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

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Victim of Night

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Gifted Aetherborn

Vampiric Link

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

Underworld Connections

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

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Invoke Despair

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

Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Agadeem, the Undercrypt

As Agadeem, the Undercrypt enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

Maga, Traitor to Mortals

Maga, Traitor to Mortals enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Maga enters, target player loses life equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Each player loses a third of their life, then discards a third of the cards in their hand, then sacrifices a third of the creatures they control of their choice, then sacrifices a third of the lands they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Smallpox

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature of their choice, then sacrifices a land of their choice.

Largepox

Each player discards a card, then loses 1 life, then sacrifices an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, a land, a planeswalker, and a tribal permanent, then exiles a card from their graveyard, then puts the top card of their library into their graveyard, then removes a counter from a permanent they control, then gets a poison counter.

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.

Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block.
Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Relentless Dead

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

Order of the Ebon Hand

Protection from white
{B}: Order of the Ebon Hand gains first strike until end of turn.
{B}{B}: Order of the Ebon Hand gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Dauthi Slayer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Dauthi Slayer attacks each combat if able.

Dread Shade

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

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Zombie Trailblazer

Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target land becomes a Swamp until end of turn.
Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Sadistic Sacrament

Kicker {7} (You may pay an additional {7} as you cast this spell.)
Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles. If this spell was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles.

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

The Elderspell

Destroy any number of target planeswalkers. Choose a planeswalker you control. Put two loyalty counters on it for each planeswalker destroyed this way.

Death Stroke

Silent Assassin

{3}{B}: Destroy target blocking creature at end of combat.

Sinkhole

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Magus of the Coffers

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.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Grave Titan

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

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Liliana, Heretical Healer

Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

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.)

Gray Merchant of Alphabet

When Gray Merchant of Alphabet enters, choose a letter. For each creature you control that has the chosen letter in its name, you gain 1 life and each opponent loses 1 life.

Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Griselbrand

Flying, lifelink
Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.

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.

Consume Spirit

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

Black Sun's Zenith

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

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