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.

Swamp

Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters, 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}

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade

Deathtouch
Whenever Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Clattering Skeletons

When Clattering Skeletons dies, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Fifty Feet of Rope

Climb Over — {T}: Target Wall can't block this turn.
Tie Up — {3}, {T}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Rappel Down — {4}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Dungeon Map

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Zombie Ogre

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

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.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Virtue of Persistence

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Locthwain Scorn

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

Pristine Talisman

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.)

Shambling Ghast

When Shambling Ghast dies, choose one —
• Brave the Stench — Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Search the Body — Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Malakir Cullblade

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

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.

Etched Familiar

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

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.)

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.

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.)

Disfigure

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Corrupted Conviction

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

Cast Down

Ray of Enfeeblement

Target creature gets -4/-1 until end of turn. If that creature is white, it gets -4/-4 until end of turn instead.

Go for the Throat

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Unlikely Aid

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

Collective Nightmare

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.)
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Bloodthorn Flail

Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip—Pay {3} or discard a card.

Eaten Alive

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

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.

Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Doomed Dissenter

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

Gisa's Bidding

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
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.)

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.)

Gate of the Black Dragon

({T}: Add {B}.)
Gate of the Black Dragon enters the battlefield tapped.
{3}{B}, {T}: Seek a nonland card. Activate only once.

Liliana, the Last Hope

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.
−2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control."

Wand of Orcus

Whenever equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Equip {3}

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.)

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Offer Immortality

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

Long Goodbye

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Innocent Blood

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Lash of the Balrog

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

Raise Dead

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sanitarium Skeleton

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

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Dead Weight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

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.)

Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak the Archlich enters, 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 of their choice.

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.

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.

Crux of Fate

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

Dark Ritual

Black Sun's Zenith

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

Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

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