Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak the Archlich enters the battlefield, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak the Archlich to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon.
Whenever Acererak the Archlich attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature.

Slaughter Pact

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

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 the battlefield this turn.

Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Heartless Summoning

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

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: 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.

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters the battlefield, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

Jet Medallion

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

Cloud Key

As Cloud Key enters the battlefield, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Jhoira's Familiar

Flying
Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

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.

Helm of Awakening

Ravenloft Adventurer

When Ravenloft Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it.
Whenever Ravenloft Adventurer attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

The Book of Vile Darkness

At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
{T}, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip {2}

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Mind Stone

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

Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch.

Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
{1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Commander's Sphere

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

Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Undead Augur

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Perished.

Headless Rider

Whenever Headless Rider or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Night's Whisper

Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Custodi Lich

When Custodi Lich enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature.

Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Read the Bones

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

Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters the battlefield, you take the initiative.
{T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead.
{3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Defile

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

Decanter of Endless Water

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

Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Blood Pact

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Go for the Throat

Thought Vessel

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

Murder

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Swamp

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Coldsteel Heart

Coldsteel Heart enters the battlefield tapped.
As Coldsteel Heart enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Charcoal Diamond

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

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.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, 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.

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Dark Ritual

Gravecrawler

Gravecrawler can't block.
You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Fractured Powerstone

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Roll the planar die. Activate only as a sorcery.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

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