Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox, the Mind Flail isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

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.

Cogwork Archivist

Reach
{2}, {T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Reanimate

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

Visions of Dread

Target opponent puts a creature card of their choice from their graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Flashback {8}{B}{B}. This spell costs {X} less to cast this way, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Cloudkill

All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Geode Golem

Trample
Whenever Geode Golem deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)

Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Vessel of Endless Rest

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

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.

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform Thaumatic Compass.

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Volrath's Stronghold

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

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.)

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.

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.

Empowered Autogenerator

Empowered Autogenerator enters tapped.
{T}: Put a charge counter on Empowered Autogenerator. Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on Empowered Autogenerator.

Vampiric Tutor

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

Abyssal Gatekeeper

When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

Grave Pact

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

Dictate of Erebos

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

Merciless Executioner

When Merciless Executioner enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Innocent Blood

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Slum Reaper

When Slum Reaper enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Strands of Night

{B}{B}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a Swamp: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

Flying
Enmitic Exterminator — When Lokhust Heavy Destroyer enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Unearth {5}{B}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Gravelighter

Flying
When Gravelighter enters, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Phyrexian Delver

When Phyrexian Delver enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Victimize

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

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When Orcish Bowmasters enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

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.

Defenestrate

Baleful Force

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

Archfiend of Spite

Flying
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to Archfiend of Spite, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice.
Madness {3}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Erratic Portal

{1}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Deadly Derision

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

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Hagra Mauling

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

Hagra Broodpit

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

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Hero's Downfall

Heartless Act

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Drag to the Underworld

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Destroy target creature.

Gang Up

Assist (Another player can pay up to {X} of this spell's cost. You choose the value of X.)
Destroy target creature with power X or less.

Costly Plunder

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

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Murder

Assassin's Ink

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control an artifact and {1} less to cast if you control an enchantment.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Swamp

Finishing Blow

Launch Party

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Altar's Reap

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

Corrupted Conviction

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Village Rites

Ancient Brass Dragon

Flying
Whenever Ancient Brass Dragon deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control, where X is the result.

Brainstealer Dragon

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Avatar of Woe

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Agadeem, the Undercrypt

As Agadeem, the Undercrypt enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sol Ring

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Dread Cacodemon

When Dread Cacodemon enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all creatures your opponents control, then tap all other creatures you control.

Xathrid Gorgon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
{2}{B}, {T}: Put a petrification counter on target creature. It gains defender and becomes a colorless artifact in addition to its other types. Its activated abilities can't be activated. (A creature with defender can't attack.)

Shadow of Mortality

If your life total is less than your starting life total, this spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the difference.

Koskun Falls

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Koskun Falls unless you tap an untapped creature you control.
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Shrouded Lore

Target opponent chooses a card in your graveyard. You may pay {B}. If you do, repeat this process except that opponent can't choose a card already chosen for Shrouded Lore. Then put the last chosen card into your hand.

Fortuitous Find

Choose one or both —
• Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Reliquary Tower

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

Reito Lantern

{3}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Braids's Frightful Return

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent of their choice. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.

Ghost Lantern

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip {1}

Bind Spirit

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit

Raise Dead

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

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.

Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block.
Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

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