Defile

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

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 this turn.

Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

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.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

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}.

Phyrexian Tower

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

Bubbling Muck

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

Attrition

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

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Blood Artist

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

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When Orcish Bowmasters enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Hobbling Zombie

Deathtouch
When Hobbling Zombie dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

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.

Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Sanitarium Skeleton

{2}{B}: Return Sanitarium Skeleton from your graveyard to your hand.

Anoint with Affliction

Exile target creature if it has mana value 3 or less.
Corrupted — Exile that creature instead if its controller has three or more poison counters.

Cruel Cut

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.

Doomed Dissenter

When Doomed Dissenter dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Easterling Vanguard

When Easterling Vanguard dies, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Graf Harvest

Zombies you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{3}{B}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

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."

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.)

Final Flourish

Kicker—Sacrifice an artifact or creature. (You may sacrifice an artifact or creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn instead.

Gollum, Patient Plotter

When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return Gollum from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Inkrise Infiltrator

Flying
{3}{B}: Inkrise Infiltrator gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Malakir Cullblade

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Malakir Cullblade.

Undead Butler

When Undead Butler enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
When Undead Butler dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Unlikely Aid

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Dunland Crebain

Flying
When Dunland Crebain enters, amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Ichor Drinker

Lifelink
{B}, Exile Ichor Drinker from your graveyard: Incubate 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Gravelighter

Flying
When Gravelighter enters, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Morbid Opportunist

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

Savage Gorger

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Savage Gorger. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Murder

Uruk-hai Berserker

When Uruk-hai Berserker enters, the Ring tempts you.

Vanquish the Weak

Destroy target creature with power 3 or less.

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

The Long Reach of Night

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice unless they discard a card.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Animus of Night's Reach

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever Animus of Night's Reach attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in defending player's graveyard.

The Long Reach of Night // Animus of Night's Reach

The Torment of Gollum

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Shadow of the Enemy

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.

Arcane Signet

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

Demon of Loathing

Flying, trample
Whenever Demon of Loathing deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Barrow-Blade

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, that creature loses all abilities until end of turn.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Eater of Virtue

Whenever equipped creature dies, exile it.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
As long as a card exiled with Eater of Virtue has flying, equipped creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance.
Equip {1}

Gollum's Bite

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{B}, Exile Gollum's Bite from your graveyard: The Ring tempts you. Activate only as a sorcery.

Inherited Envelope

When Inherited Envelope enters, the Ring tempts you.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Blightbeetle

Protection from green (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything green.)
Creatures your opponents control can't have +1/+1 counters put on them.

Shelob's Ambush

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Morgul-Knife Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -3/-0 and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, exile this creature unless you pay 2 life."

Ghoulish Procession

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Haunt of the Dead Marshes

When Haunt of the Dead Marshes enters, scry 1.
{2}{B}: Return Haunt of the Dead Marshes from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Gríma Wormtongue

Your opponents can't gain life.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Target player loses 1 life. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, amass Orcs 2.

Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Sam's Desperate Rescue

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

Cult Conscript

Cult Conscript enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return Cult Conscript from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.

Drown in Ichor

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Traumatic Revelation

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature or battle card from it. If you do, that player discards that card. If you don't, incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Flitting Guerrilla

Flying
When Flitting Guerrilla dies, each player mills two cards. Then you may exile Flitting Guerrilla. When you do, put target creature or battle card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill two cards, a player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Hero's Downfall

Mirkwood Bats

Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Sauron, the Necromancer

Menace
Whenever Sauron, the Necromancer attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Wraith with menace. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token unless Sauron is your Ring-bearer.

Trench Stalker

As long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn, Trench Stalker has deathtouch and lifelink.

Sword of Once and Future

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip {2}

Horn of the Mark

Whenever two or more creatures you control attack a player, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Dockside Chef

{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card.

Go for the Throat

March from the Black Gate

When March from the Black Gate enters and whenever an Army you control attacks, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Mordor Muster

You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Etched Familiar

When Etched Familiar dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Falkenrath Forebear

Flying
Falkenrath Forebear can't block.
Whenever Falkenrath Forebear deals combat damage to a player, create a Blood token.
{B}, Sacrifice two Blood tokens: Return Falkenrath Forebear from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Markov Baron

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Lifelink
Other Vampires you control get +1/+1.
Madness {2}{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.)

Mordor Trebuchet

Defender
Whenever you attack with one or more Goblins and/or Orcs, create a 2/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token with flying named Ballistic Boulder that's tapped and attacking. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.

Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

When Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant enters, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Creature tokens you control have deathtouch.

Cirith Ungol Patrol

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card, then create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Abyssal Gorestalker

When Abyssal Gorestalker enters, each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Tangled Colony

Tangled Colony can't block.
When Tangled Colony dies, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This creature can't block," where X is the amount of damage dealt to it this turn.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Phyrexian Arena

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

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Phyrexian Obliterator

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

Pile On

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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.)

Sanguine Bond

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

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Soulhunter Rakshasa

Soulhunter Rakshasa can't block.
When Soulhunter Rakshasa enters, if you cast it from your hand, it deals 1 damage to target opponent for each Swamp you control.

Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Compleated ({B/P} can be paid with {B} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. Proliferate.
−2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities.
−9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.

Mithril Coat

Flash
Indestructible
When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control.
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip {3}

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Chimil, the Inner Sun

Spells you control can't be countered.
At the beginning of your end step, discover 5. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
Flying, trample, protection from instants

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.

Dark Ritual

Lolth, Spider Queen

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth, Spider Queen.
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."

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