Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Blood Artist

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

Exsanguinate

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

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Commander's Sphere

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

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.

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
−2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.
−8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

Mind Stone

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

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}{B}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
{6}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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}.

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

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.)

Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Exile Campfire: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Illicit Shipment

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Dreadhound

When Dreadhound enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Phyrexian Arena

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

Harvester of Souls

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

Weatherlight Compleated

Flying
As long as Weatherlight Compleated has four or more phyresis counters on it, it's a Phyrexian creature in addition to its other types.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a phyresis counter on Weatherlight Compleated. Then draw a card if it has seven or more phyresis counters on it. If it doesn't, scry 1.

Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash
When Liliana's Standard Bearer enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Gravecrawler

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

Memorial to Folly

Memorial to Folly enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Memorial to Folly: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on Vat of Rebirth.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from Vat of Rebirth: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

Blood for Bones

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Liliana's Devotee

Zombies you control get +1/+0.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Dark Dabbling

Regenerate target creature. Draw a card. (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.

Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Bringer of the Last Gift

Flying
When Bringer of the Last Gift enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.

Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Shriekmaw enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Doom Blade

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Hidden Necropolis

Hidden Necropolis enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Necropolis: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 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.)

Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn.
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Outrageous Robbery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those 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 type to cast it.

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.

Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Ghoulcaller Gisa

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant

Flash
If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
{4}, {T}, Exile Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant: Return to the battlefield tapped all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

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.)

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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

Arcane Signet

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

Desert of the Glorified

Desert of the Glorified enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sol Ring

Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment.

Midnight Reaper

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

Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

The Dross Pits

The Dross Pits enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice The Dross Pits: Draw a card.

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

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Tenacious Underdog

Blitz—{2}{B}{B}, Pay 2 life. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)
You may cast Tenacious Underdog from your graveyard using its blitz ability.

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Piper of the Swarm

Rats you control have menace.
{1}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

Rankle's Prank

Choose one or more —
• Each player discards two cards.
• Each player loses 4 life.
• Each player sacrifices two creatures.

Butcher of Malakir

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

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.

Feed the Swarm

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

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Bojuka Bog

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

Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

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.

Swamp

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.

Entreat the Dead

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Miracle {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

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