Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Dark Ritual

Sol Ring

Cabal Coffers

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

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Feed the Swarm

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

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.

Night's Whisper

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Mind Stone

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

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Exsanguinate

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

Hagra Mauling

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.

Hagra Broodpit

Hagra Broodpit enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Swiftfoot Boots

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

Basilica Screecher

Flying
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.)

Pontiff of Blight

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.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Thrull Parasite

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.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Lightning Greaves

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

Read the Bones

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

Arcane Signet

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

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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.

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

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.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Helm of Awakening

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Shred Memory

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Netherborn Phalanx

When Netherborn Phalanx enters the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one —
• Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Reiver Demon

Flying
When Reiver Demon enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Pestilence Demon

Flying
{B}: Pestilence Demon deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Thought Vessel

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

Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Put up to one target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker. Exile Yawgmoth's Vile Offering.

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Mutilate

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

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Thran Dynamo

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.

Jet Medallion

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

Fellwar Stone

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

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

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.)

Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence.
{B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Reanimate

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

Demonic Tutor

Cabal Stronghold

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

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Dross Skullbomb

{1}, Sacrifice Dross Skullbomb: Draw a card.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice Dross Skullbomb: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Greed

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

Supernatural Stamina

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."

Murder

Ashnod's Intervention

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand."

Swamp

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Reliquary Tower

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

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.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Ancient Craving

Ever After

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each of those creatures is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Put Ever After on the bottom of its owner's library.

Burnished Hart

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

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

War Room

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

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.

Leshrac's Sigil

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you may pay {B}{B}. If you do, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.
{B}{B}: Return Leshrac's Sigil to its owner's hand.

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

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}.

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