Swamp

Dark Ritual

Defile

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

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Subtle Strike

Choose one or both —
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

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.

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Ogre Slumlord

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

Disfigure

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

You Are Already Dead

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card.

Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Jade Monolith

{1}: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to target creature this turn, that source deals that damage to you instead.

Nighthaze

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Draw a card.

Overseer of the Damned

Flying
When Overseer of the Damned enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Night's Whisper

Diabolic Tutor

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

Reanimate

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

Cannibalize

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Exile one of those creatures and put two +1/+1 counters on the other.

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Liquimetal Coating

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Distorting Lens

{T}: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Lose Hope

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Tower of Coireall

{T}: Target creature can't be blocked by Walls this turn.

Darkblast

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Baton of Morale

{2}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Thrilling Encore

Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Sacred Armory

{2}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Horobi, Death's Wail

Flying
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

Helm of Chatzuk

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Icy Manipulator

{1}, {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, 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.

Morbid Opportunist

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

Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, Hex Parasite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Orc Sureshot

Whenever another creature you control enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Rathi Trapper

Xenic Poltergeist

{T}: Until your next upkeep, target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.

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.

Misery's Shadow

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
{1}: Misery's Shadow gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When Sepulchral Primordial enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorceress Queen

{T}: Target creature other than Sorceress Queen has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Dauthi Trapper

{T}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Shambling Swarm

When Shambling Swarm dies, distribute three -1/-1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each -1/-1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a -1/-1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant

Menace
Whenever another creature dies during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant.
When Vogar dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Desert deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Fourth Bridge Prowler

When Fourth Bridge Prowler enters, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Oasis

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Festering Mummy

When Festering Mummy dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Maze of Ith

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

Soul of New Phyrexia

Trample
{5}: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
{5}, Exile Soul of New Phyrexia from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Arcane Signet

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

Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch
{B}, Reveal Tetzimoc, Primal Death from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.
When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Mogis's Marauder

When Mogis's Marauder enters, up to X target creatures each gain intimidate and haste until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it. Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

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