Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls and draw a card.

The Lord of Pain

Menace
Your opponents can't gain life.
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Commander's Sphere

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

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, 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.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Dark Ritual

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Harmonic Prodigy

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If an ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Stormfist Crusader

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Arcane Signet

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

Toralf, God of Fury

Trample
Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls is dealt excess noncombat damage, Toralf deals damage equal to the excess to any target other than that permanent.

Toralf's Hammer

Equipped creature has "{1}{R}, {T}, Unattach Toralf's Hammer: It deals 3 damage to any target. Return Toralf's Hammer to its owner's hand."
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 as long as it's legendary.
Equip {1}{R}

Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer

Lightning Reaver

Haste; fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Lightning Reaver deals combat damage to a player, put a charge counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, Lightning Reaver deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to each opponent.

Generous Plunderer

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a Treasure token. When you do, target opponent creates a tapped Treasure token.
Whenever Generous Plunderer attacks, it deals damage to defending player equal to the number of artifacts they control.

Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+ {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Rakdos, Patron of Chaos

Flying, trample
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent may sacrifice two nonland, nontoken permanents. If they don't, you draw two cards.

Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Grim Tutor

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

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature.

Mana Flare

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Bojuka Bog

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

Swamp

Humble Defector

{T}: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of Humble Defector. Activate only during your turn.

Mountain

Reanimate

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

Bituminous Blast

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Fiery Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature.
• Fiery Confluence deals 2 damage to each opponent.
• Destroy target artifact.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Exquisite Blood

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

Arena of Glory

Arena of Glory enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}, Exert Arena of Glory: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

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.)

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.

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.

Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Grafted Exoskeleton

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever Grafted Exoskeleton becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent.
Equip {2}

Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Gratuitous Violence

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Rakdos Signet

Command Tower

Vial Smasher the Fierce

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher the Fierce deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Pyroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's blue.
• Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Pain Distributor

Menace
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, they create a Treasure token.
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Pain Distributor deals 1 damage to that player.

Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead.
{1}{R/P}{R/P}, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip {2}

Prisoner's Dilemma

Each opponent secretly chooses silence or snitch, then the choices are revealed. If each opponent chose silence, Prisoner's Dilemma deals 4 damage to each of them. If each opponent chose snitch, Prisoner's Dilemma deals 8 damage to each of them. Otherwise, Prisoner's Dilemma deals 12 damage to each opponent who chose silence.
Flashback {5}{R}{R}

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

Trample
If a red source you control would deal an amount of noncombat damage less than Ojer Axonil's power to an opponent, that source deals damage equal to Ojer Axonil's power instead.
When Ojer Axonil dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Temple of Power

(Transforms from Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might.)
{T}: Add {R}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Transform Temple of Power. Activate only if red sources you controlled dealt 4 or more noncombat damage this turn and only as a sorcery.

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power

Angrath's Marauders

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Sol Ring

Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Raucous Theater enters tapped.
When Raucous Theater enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

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}.

The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

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