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.)

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.)

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.

Rend Flesh

Kyoki, Sanity's Eclipse

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

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.

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.

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.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Devouring Greed

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of Spirits.
Target player loses 2 life plus 2 life for each Spirit sacrificed this way. You gain that much life.

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.

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.

Read the Bones

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

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.

Death Denied

Return X target creature cards 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.)

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.)

Gravelighter

Flying
When Gravelighter enters the battlefield, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature.

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.)

Long-Forgotten Gohei

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

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}.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Waking Nightmare

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.

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.

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.

Emissary of Despair

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

Bile Urchin

Sacrifice Bile Urchin: Target player loses 1 life.

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.)

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji, the Midnight Sky dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 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.)

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 Empty Graves

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

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.)

Paupers' Cage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Paupers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player.

The Rack

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Painful Quandary

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

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.)

Spirit of Malevolence

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

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.

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.

Myojin of Grim Betrayal

Myojin of Grim Betrayal enters the battlefield with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Grim Betrayal: Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from anywhere this turn.

Dark Ritual

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.)

Call for Blood

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Goryo's Vengeance

Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Splice onto Arcane {2}{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.)

Three Tragedies

Sol Ring

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geth's Grimoire

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

Wheel of Torture

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

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.

Megrim

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

Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

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.

Greed

Bojuka Bog

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

Cabal Stronghold

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

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Reliquary Tower

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

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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