Aboleth Spawn

Flash
Ward {2}
Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering the battlefield under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Captain N'ghathrod

Horrors you control have menace.
Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Endless Evil

Enchant creature you control
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except the token is 1/1.
When enchanted creature dies, if that creature was a Horror, return Endless Evil to its owner's hand.

Mirrorhall Mimic

You may have Mirrorhall Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types.
Disturb {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Ghastly Mimicry

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types.
If Ghastly Mimicry would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry

Followed Footsteps

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature.

Grell Philosopher

Aberrant Tinkering — When Grell Philosopher enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, each Horror you control gains all activated abilities of target artifact an opponent controls until end of turn. You may spend blue mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Intellect Devourer

Devour Intellect — When Intellect Devourer enters the battlefield, each opponent exiles a card from their hand until Intellect Devourer leaves the battlefield.
Body Thief — You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Intellect Devourer. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Psionic Ritual

Replicate—Tap an untapped Horror you control. (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Exile Psionic Ritual.

Sludge Monster

Whenever Sludge Monster enters the battlefield or attacks, put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.
Non-Horror creatures with slime counters on them lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 2/2.

Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them.
Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token.
{U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Uchuulon

Uchuulon's power is equal to the number of Crabs, Oozes, and/or Horrors you control.
Horrific Symbiosis — At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of Uchuulon.

Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token.
{1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Umbris, Fear Manifest

Umbris, Fear Manifest gets +1/+1 for each card your opponents own in exile.
Whenever Umbris or another Nightmare or Horror enters the battlefield under your control, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a land card.

Brainstealer Dragon

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may 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 color to cast it.
Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or more.

Worst Fears

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Paradox Haze

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

Illithid Harvester

Ceremorphosis — When Illithid Harvester enters the battlefield, turn any number of target tapped nontoken creatures face down. They're 2/2 Horror creatures.

Plant Tadpoles

Tap X target creatures. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Illithid Harvester // Plant Tadpoles

Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Voldaren Pariah

Flying
Sacrifice three other creatures: Transform Voldaren Pariah.
Madness {B}{B}{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.)

Abolisher of Bloodlines

Flying
When this creature transforms into Abolisher of Bloodlines, target opponent sacrifices three creatures.

Voldaren Pariah // Abolisher of Bloodlines

Wizard's Spellbook

{T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery.
1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy.
10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost.
20 | Copy each card exiled with Wizard's Spellbook. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Mage Hunter

Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.

Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library."
−3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand.
−7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

+2: Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library.
−X: Put a creature card with mana value X exiled with Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a Nightmare in addition to its other types.
−10: Exile all cards from all opponents' hands and graveyards.

Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library.
−1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Call of the Nightwing

Create a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Chainer's Torment

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Chainer's Torment deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
III — Create an X/X black Nightmare Horror creature token, where X is half your life total, rounded up. It deals X damage to you.

Corpseweft

{1}{B}, Exile one or more creature cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped X/X black Zombie Horror creature token, where X is twice the number of cards exiled this way.

Nightmare Shepherd

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Spoils of Blood

Create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.

Abyssal Gatekeeper

When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature.

Angel of Suffering

Flying
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Thing in the Ice

Defender
Thing in the Ice enters the battlefield with four ice counters on it.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, remove an ice counter from Thing in the Ice. Then if it has no ice counters on it, transform it.

Awoken Horror

When this creature transforms into Awoken Horror, return all non-Horror creatures to their owners' hands.

Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker.
When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Despoiler of Souls

Despoiler of Souls can't block.
{B}{B}, Exile two other creature cards from your graveyard: Return Despoiler of Souls from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Doom Weaver

Reach
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Doom Weaver is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "When this creature dies, draw cards equal to its power."

Dross Harvester

Protection from white
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Elder Brain

Menace
Whenever Elder Brain attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled 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 color to cast it.

Eater of the Dead

{0}: If Eater of the Dead is tapped, exile target creature card from a graveyard and untap Eater of the Dead.

Eternal Scourge

You may cast Eternal Scourge from exile.
When Eternal Scourge becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, exile Eternal Scourge.

Faceless Butcher

When Faceless Butcher enters the battlefield, exile another target creature.
When Faceless Butcher leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Flesh Reaver

Whenever Flesh Reaver deals damage to a creature or opponent, Flesh Reaver deals that much damage to you.

Gloom Pangolin

Gluttonous Slug

Menace
Evolve (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Gravegouger

When Gravegouger enters the battlefield, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard.
When Gravegouger leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's graveyard.

Graven Abomination

Whenever Graven Abomination attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard.

Guiltfeeder

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Guiltfeeder attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Hunted Horror

Trample
When Hunted Horror enters the battlefield, target opponent creates two 3/3 green Centaur creature tokens with protection from black.

Hunted Nightmare

Menace
When Hunted Nightmare enters the battlefield, target opponent puts a deathtouch counter on a creature they control.

Ichorid

Haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Ichorid.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ichorid is in your graveyard, you may exile a black creature card other than Ichorid from your graveyard. If you do, return Ichorid to the battlefield.

Runo Stromkirk

Flying
When Runo Stromkirk enters the battlefield, put up to one target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If a creature card with mana value 6 or greater is revealed this way, transform Runo Stromkirk.

Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Flying
Whenever Krothuss, Lord of the Deep attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target attacking creature. If that creature is a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent, create two of those tokens instead.

Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

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.

Mesmeric Fiend

When Mesmeric Fiend enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
When Mesmeric Fiend leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When Mind Flayer enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature for as long as you control Mind Flayer.

Mindslicer

When Mindslicer dies, each player discards their hand.

Nihilith

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Suspend 7—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with seven time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Nihilith is suspended, you may remove a time counter from Nihilith.

Plague Spitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
When Plague Spitter dies, it deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Slitherwisp

Flash
Whenever you cast another spell that has flash, you draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.

Spellskite

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Vebulid

Vebulid enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Vebulid.
When Vebulid attacks or blocks, destroy it at end of combat.

Wharf Infiltrator

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever Wharf Infiltrator deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.

Wormfang Drake

Flying
When Wormfang Drake enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you exile a creature you control other than Wormfang Drake.
When Wormfang Drake leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Wormfang Newt

When Wormfang Newt enters the battlefield, exile a land you control.
When Wormfang Newt leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Wormfang Turtle

When Wormfang Turtle enters the battlefield, exile a land you control.
When Wormfang Turtle leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their base power is half that creature's power and their base toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

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.

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 that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Defiler of Dreams

Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Ravenous Necrotitan

Corrupted — When Ravenous Necrotitan enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature unless an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Monstrous War-Leech

Kicker {U} (You may pay an additional {U} as you cast this spell.)
As Monstrous War-Leech enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, mill four cards. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Monstrous War-Leech's power and toughness are each equal to the highest mana value among cards in your graveyard.

Gibbering Barricade

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

Carrion Locust

Flying
When Carrion Locust enters the battlefield, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, that player loses 1 life.

Gurgling Anointer

Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Gurgling Anointer.
When Gurgling Anointer dies, return another target creature card with mana value less than or equal to Gurgling Anointer's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Ravenous Gigamole

When Ravenous Gigamole enters the battlefield, mill three cards. You may put a creature card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on Ravenous Gigamole. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Gulping Scraptrap

When Gulping Scraptrap enters the battlefield or dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Scrapwork Rager

When Scrapwork Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Trench Stalker

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

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

First-Sphere Gargantua

When First-Sphere Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Phyrexian Gargantua

When Phyrexian Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Phyrexian Obliterator

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

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Gloomfang Mauler

Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Backup 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Menace

Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

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