Lord Skitter's Butcher

When Lord Skitter's Butcher enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."
• You may sacrifice another creature. If you do, scry 2, then draw a card.
• Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn.

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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.)

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.)

The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Swamp

Sol Ring

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.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Cabal Coffers

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

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.)

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

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.

Demonic Tutor

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

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Grim Tutor

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

Haunting Voyage

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead.
Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Night's Whisper

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Phyrexian Tower

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

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Skullclamp

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

Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Vampiric Tutor

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

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Karumonix, the Rat King

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Other Rats you control have toxic 1.
When Karumonix enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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.

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.

Ogre Slumlord

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

Twisted Sewer-Witch

When Twisted Sewer-Witch enters, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block." Then for each Rat you control, create a Wicked Role token attached to that Rat. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

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.

Ratcatcher

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Rat card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Dark Ritual

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
{3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Chittering Witch

When Chittering Witch enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Voracious Vermin

When Voracious Vermin enters, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."
Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Voracious Vermin.

Okiba-Gang Shinobi

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Okiba-Gang Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Throat Slitter deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Tangled Colony

Tangled Colony can't block.
When Tangled Colony dies, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This creature can't block," where X is the amount of damage dealt to it this turn.

Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."

Wave of Rats

Trample
When Wave of Rats dies, if it dealt combat damage to a player this turn, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Blitz {4}{B} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Swarmyard

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

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.")

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.

Pact of the Serpent

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

Dark Prophecy

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

Tribute to Horobi

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Each opponent creates a 1/1 black Rat Rogue creature token.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Echo of Death's Wail

Flying, haste
When Echo of Death's Wail enters, gain control of all Rat tokens.
Whenever Echo of Death's Wail attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.

Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail

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.)

Corrupted Conviction

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

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.

Victimize

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

Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters, choose a creature type.
Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Village Rites

Culling the Weak

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

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

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.

Rat Colony

Rat Colony gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control.
A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.

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.)

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