Phyrexian Arena

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

Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Equip {3}

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Bad Moon

Crypt Rats

{X}: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Marrow-Gnawer

All Rats have fear.
{T}, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.

Relentless Rats

Relentless Rats gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.
A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, 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.)

Swarm of Rats

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

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.

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

Whenever Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm attacks or blocks, other Rats you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Rats you control.
At the beginning of your end step, you may mill four cards. If you do, return up to two Rat creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as Filth is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

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.

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, 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.

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.

Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Eliminate

Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

Heraldic Banner

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

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Pack Rat

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control.
{2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of Pack Rat.

Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

Gauntlet of Power

As Gauntlet of Power enters, choose a color.
Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Go for the Throat

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Dark Ritual

Ayara, First of Locthwain

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

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{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.)

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When Extraplanar Lens enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

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.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Lab Rats

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.

Doom Blade

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.)

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Snow-Covered Swamp

Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Contamination unless you sacrifice a creature.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

Feed the Swarm

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

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Cabal Coffers

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

Mutilate

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

Cabal Stronghold

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

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Bojuka Bog

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

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Greed

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Jet Medallion

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

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

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.

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.

Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Lake of the Dead

If Lake of the Dead would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

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