Richard Garfield, Ph.D.

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Overcharged Amalgam

Flash
Flying
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Empty the Laboratory

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

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

Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life.
{2}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Noosegraf Mob

Noosegraf Mob enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell, remove a +1/+1 counter from Noosegraf Mob. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Rot Hulk

Menace
When Rot Hulk enters, return up to X target Zombie cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of opponents you have.

God-Eternal Oketra

Double strike
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance.
When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Cleaver Skaab

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice another Zombie: Create two tokens that are copies of the sacrificed creature.

Shivan Gorge

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{R}, {T}: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on Crowded Crypt.
{4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Crowded Crypt: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Ebondeath, Dracolich

Flash
Flying
Ebondeath, Dracolich enters tapped.
You may cast Ebondeath, Dracolich from your graveyard if a creature not named Ebondeath, Dracolich died this turn.

Daxos the Returned

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you get an experience counter.
{1}{W}{B}: Create a white and black Spirit enchantment creature token. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of experience counters you have."

Victimize

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

Diregraf Colossus

Diregraf Colossus enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard.
Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Tomb Tyrant

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return a Zombie creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn and only if there are at least three Zombie creature cards in your graveyard.

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar, the Mindrazer deals 1 damage to that player.

Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When Relentless Dead dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, return it to its owner's hand.
When Relentless Dead dies, you may pay {X}. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Poxwalkers

Deathtouch
Curse of the Walking Pox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, return Poxwalkers from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Ratadrabik of Urborg

Vigilance, ward {2}
Other Zombies you control have vigilance.
Whenever another legendary creature you control dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's not legendary and it's a 2/2 black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Phyresis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Undead Augur

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Kormus Bell

All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures that are still lands.

Call to the Kindred

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, you may put a creature card that shares a creature type with enchanted creature from among them onto the battlefield, then you put the rest of those cards on the bottom of your library in any order.

Corpse Harvester

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a Zombie card and a Swamp card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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.)

Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Soulless One

Soulless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield plus the number of Zombie cards in all graveyards.

Confound

Counter target spell that targets a creature.
Draw a card.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

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.

Sorcerous Sight

Look at target opponent's hand.
Draw a card.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Balthor the Defiled

Minion creatures get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Exile Balthor the Defiled: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch

Sorcerous Inspiration — At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Fire of Tzeentch — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Caltrops

Whenever a creature attacks, Caltrops deals 1 damage to it.

Boneyard Scourge

Flying
Whenever a Dragon you control dies while Boneyard Scourge is in your graveyard, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, return Boneyard Scourge from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie you control enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Mana Echoes

Whenever a creature enters, you may add an amount of {C} equal to the number of creatures you control that share a creature type with it.

Hatchery Sliver

Replicate {1}{G} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)
Each Sliver spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Dance of the 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 Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Open the Graves

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

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.

God-Eternal Bontu

Menace
When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards.
When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Lich Lord of Unx

{U}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 blue and black Zombie Wizard creature token.
{U}{U}{B}{B}: Target player loses X life and mills X cards, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Culling the Weak

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

Rise of the Dark Realms

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

Gisa's Favorite Shovel

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has menace.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they do, you create a Walker token.
Equip {4}

Shadow of Doubt

({U/B} can be paid with either {U} or {B}.)
Players can't search libraries this turn.
Draw a card.

Deepglow Skate

When Deepglow Skate enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Forge, Neverwinter Charlatan

Menace
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Forge, Neverwinter Charlatan gets +2/+0 for each Treasure you control.
Whenever one or more players sacrifice one or more creatures, you create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload {4}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Nature's Will

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap all lands that player controls and untap all lands you control.

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet.

Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak the Archlich enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak the Archlich to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon.
Whenever Acererak the Archlich attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Bone Dancer

Whenever Bone Dancer attacks and isn't blocked, you may put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. If you do, Bone Dancer assigns no combat damage this turn.

Virtue of Loyalty

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Untap those creatures.

Ardenvale Fealty

Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)

Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty

Psychic Allergy

As Psychic Allergy enters, choose a color.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Psychic Allergy deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of nontoken permanents of the chosen color they control.
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy Psychic Allergy unless you sacrifice two Islands.

Vanishing

Enchant creature
{U}{U}: Enchanted creature phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Diplomatic Immunity

Enchant creature
Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creature has shroud.

Alter Reality

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Stunt Double

Flash
You may have Stunt Double enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash
When Tishana's Tidebinder enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Aluren

Any player may cast creature spells with mana value 3 or less without paying their mana costs and as though they had flash.

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Scout's Warning

The next creature card you play this turn can be played as though it had flash.
Draw a card.

Savage Summoning

This spell can't be countered.
The next creature spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. That spell can't be countered. That creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Magma Sliver

All Slivers have "{T}: Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield."

Ancestral Knowledge

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Ancestral Knowledge enters, look at the top ten cards of your library, then exile any number of them and put the rest back on top of your library in any order.
When Ancestral Knowledge leaves the battlefield, shuffle your library.

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.

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Wu Spy

When Wu Spy enters, look at the top two cards of target player's library. Put one of them into their graveyard.

Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Natural Selection

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.

Mirri's Guile

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Go for the Throat

Prowling Geistcatcher

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile it. If that creature was a token, put a +1/+1 counter on Prowling Geistcatcher.
When Prowling Geistcatcher leaves the battlefield, return each card exiled with it to the battlefield under your control.

Dread Summons

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Curse of the Restless Dead

Enchant player
Whenever a land enchanted player controls enters, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Gorex, the Tombshell

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Deathtouch
Whenever Gorex, the Tombshell attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.

Havengul Runebinder

{2}{U}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Zombie creature you control.

Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

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.

Josu Vess, Lich Knight

Kicker {5}{B} (You may pay an additional {5}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Menace
When Josu Vess, Lich Knight enters, if it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

Lazotep Plating

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.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Cryptbreaker

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

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