Doom Blade

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.

Banshee of the Dread Choir

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Whenever Banshee of the Dread Choir deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

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.

Tormented Soul

Tormented Soul can't block and can't be blocked.

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.

Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Thief of Hope

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Soulshift 2 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Waking Nightmare

Long-Forgotten Gohei

Arcane spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1.

Ghost-Lit Stalker

{4}{B}, {T}: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.
Channel — {5}{B}{B}, Discard Ghost-Lit Stalker: Target player discards four cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

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}.

Baleful Eidolon

Bestow {4}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch.

Horobi's Whisper

If you control a Swamp, destroy target nonblack creature.
Splice onto Arcane—Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Painful Quandary

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

Skullcage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Skullcage deals 2 damage to that player unless they have exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.

Akuta, Born of Ash

Haste
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have more cards in hand than each opponent, you may sacrifice a Swamp. If you do, return Akuta, Born of Ash from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Choice of Damnations

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents.

Footsteps of the Goryo

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Infernal Kirin

Flying
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target player reveals their hand and discards all cards with that spell's mana value.

Kemuri-Onna

When Kemuri-Onna enters the battlefield, target player discards a card.
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may return Kemuri-Onna to its owner's hand.

Bile Urchin

Sacrifice Bile Urchin: Target player loses 1 life.

Crawling Filth

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Pus Kami

{B}, Sacrifice Pus Kami: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Soulshift 6 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 6 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sickening Shoal

You may exile a black card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Three Tragedies

Baku Altar

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Baku Altar.
{2}, {T}, Remove a ki counter from Baku Altar: Create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Cranial Extraction

Choose a nonland card name. Search target player's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Cruel Deceiver

{1}: Look at the top card of your library.
{2}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, Cruel Deceiver gains "Whenever Cruel Deceiver deals damage to a creature, destroy that creature" until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Gibbering Kami

Flying
Soulshift 3 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

He Who Hungers

Flying
{1}, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Hideous Laughter

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Splice onto Arcane {3}{B}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Iname, Death Aspect

When Iname, Death Aspect enters the battlefield, you may search your library for any number of Spirit cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Kami of Lunacy

Flying
Soulshift 5 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Kami of the Waning Moon

Flying
Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Myojin of Night's Reach

Myojin of Night's Reach enters the battlefield with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Soulless Revival

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Splice onto Arcane {1}{B} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Swallowing Plague

Swallowing Plague deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life.

Wicked Akuba

{B}: Target player dealt damage by Wicked Akuba this turn loses 1 life.

Emissary of Despair

Flying
Whenever Emissary of Despair deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life for each artifact they control.

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Heraldic Banner

As Heraldic Banner enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, 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.

Read the Bones

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Dark Ritual

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, 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.)

Spirit of Malevolence

When Spirit of Malevolence dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Nether Traitor

Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return Nether Traitor from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Rend Flesh

Jet Medallion

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

Charcoal Diamond

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

Arcane Signet

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

Swamp

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.

Mind Stone

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

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield 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.

Bojuka Bog

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

Sol Ring

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Feed the Swarm

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

Kyoki, Sanity's Eclipse

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, target opponent exiles a card from their hand.

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