Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

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.)

Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Lisette, Dean of the Root

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root

Drainpipe Vermin

When Drainpipe Vermin dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player discards a card.

Call to the Netherworld

Return target black creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Madness {0} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sol Ring

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

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.

Entomb

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

Vampiric Tutor

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

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Bag of Holding: Return all cards exiled with Bag of Holding to their owner's hand.

Amulet of Vigor

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Dark Ritual

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Knight of the Ebon Legion

{2}{B}: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Swamp

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Reanimate

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

Glasses of Urza

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.

Shambling Ghast

When Shambling Ghast dies, choose one —
• Brave the Stench — Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Search the Body — Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Soul-Guide Lantern

When Soul-Guide Lantern enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Draw a card.

Executioner's Capsule

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Executioner's Capsule: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Reaper's Talisman

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Deathrite Shaman

{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color.
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

Persistent Specimen

{2}{B}: Return Persistent Specimen from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Carrion Feeder

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

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Hope of Ghirapur

Flying
Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.

Signal Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Bilious Skulldweller

Deathtouch
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Vector Asp

{B}: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Vampire Cutthroat

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Steel Wall

Excavated Wall

Defender
{1}, {T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Mardu Shadowspear

Whenever Mardu Shadowspear attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.
Dash {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Eye Collector

Flying
Whenever Eye Collector deals combat damage to a player, each player mills a card.

Bone Shards

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Evolved Sleeper

{B}: Evolved Sleeper becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.
{1}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
{1}{B}{B}: If Evolved Sleeper is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Deathtouch
Whenever Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, create a tapped Powerstone token.
{5}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token.

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Prickly Boggart

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Innocent Blood

Will-o'-the-Wisp

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
{B}: Regenerate Will-o'-the-Wisp. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

Archfiend's Vessel

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
When Archfiend's Vessel enters the battlefield, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Carrion Rats

Whenever Carrion Rats attacks or blocks, any player may exile a card from their graveyard. If a player does, Carrion Rats assigns no combat damage this turn.

Hopeless Nightmare

When Hopeless Nightmare enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
When Hopeless Nightmare is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2.
{2}{B}: Sacrifice Hopeless Nightmare.

Thoughtpicker Witch

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library, then exile one of them.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

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.

Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Each other player loses X life.

Barrier of Bones

Defender
When Barrier of Bones enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Kjeldoran Dead

When Kjeldoran Dead enters the battlefield, sacrifice a creature.
{B}: Regenerate Kjeldoran Dead.

Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Defile

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

Corrupted Conviction

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

You Are Already Dead

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

Paralyze

Enchant creature
When Paralyze enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {4}. If the player does, untap the creature.

Dreams of Steel and Oil

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it, then choose an artifact or creature card from their graveyard. Exile the chosen cards.

Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Despise

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

Appetite for Brains

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it with mana value 4 or greater and exile that card.

Demonic Appetite

Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Mire's Toll

Target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip {2}

Endless Scream

Enchant creature
Endless Scream enters the battlefield with X scream counters on it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 for each scream counter on Endless Scream.

Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.

Chimeric Coils

{X}{1}: Chimeric Coils becomes an X/X Construct artifact creature. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Currency Converter

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard.
{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{T}: Put a card exiled with Currency Converter into your graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

Dino DNA

Imprint — {1}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery.
{6}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card exiled with Dino DNA, except it's a 6/6 green Dinosaur creature with trample. Activate only as a sorcery.

Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Grindstone

{3}, {T}: Target player mills two cards. If two cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander {3}
Equip {5}

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Profane Memento

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

Zephyr Boots

Equipped creature has flying.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Cabal Stronghold

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

Tomb Fortress

Tomb Fortress enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile Tomb Fortress: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.)

Shield of the Avatar

If a source would deal damage to equipped creature, prevent X of that damage, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Skeleton Key

Equipped creature has skulk. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {2}

Discard

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