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.

Swamp

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}."

Cabal Stronghold

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

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Treasure Vault: Create X Treasure tokens.

Greed

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}

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.)

Ghoulish Procession

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Grim Bounty

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Urborg Justice

Target opponent sacrifices a creature for each creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Ruinous Path

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Awaken 4—{5}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for {5}{B}{B}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Unholy Indenture

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Ruthless Knave

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Sacrifice three Treasures: Draw a card.

Lightning Greaves

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

Jet Medallion

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

Victimize

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

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sinkhole

Simulacrum

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Exsanguinate

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

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Nested Shambler

When Nested Shambler dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is Nested Shambler's power.

Read the Bones

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

Thought Vessel

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Sol Ring

Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Contract Killing

Destroy target creature. Create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Go for the Throat

Hobbling Zombie

Deathtouch
When Hobbling Zombie dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.")

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.)

Dire Fleet Hoarder

When Dire Fleet Hoarder dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature.

Forsworn Paladin

Menace
{1}{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token.
{2}{B}: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If mana from a Treasure was spent to activate this ability, that creature also gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Exquisite Blood

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

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.")

Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Nekrataal

First strike
When Nekrataal enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, 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.

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Skullport Merchant

When Skullport Merchant enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or a Treasure: Draw a card.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Drain Life

Spend only black mana on X.
Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Blood Money

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

Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Cruel Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

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.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

Cabal Coffers

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

Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Arcane Signet

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

Feed the Swarm

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

Reassembling Skeleton

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

Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Reanimate

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

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