Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker.

Dark Ritual

Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis, Unshackled.

Royal Assassin

Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Noxious Vapors

Each player reveals their hand, chooses one card of each color from it, then discards all other nonland cards.

Tergrid, God of Fright

Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Tergrid's Lantern

{T}: Target player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card.
{3}{B}: Untap Tergrid's Lantern.

Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern

Sol Talisman

Suspend 3—{1} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Scandalmonger

{2}: Target player discards a card. Any player may activate this ability but only as a sorcery.

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Mind Warp

Look at target player's hand and choose X cards from it. That player discards those cards.

Songs of the Damned

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

Szat's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power.
• Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.

Coveted Prize

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If you have a full party, you may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Stupor

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

Discordant Dirge

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on Discordant Dirge.
{B}, Sacrifice Discordant Dirge: Look at target opponent's hand and choose up to X cards from it, where X is the number of verse counters on Discordant Dirge. That player discards those cards.

Larceny

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Cabal Coffers

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

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.)

Undertaker

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

Dying Wail

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, target player discards two cards.

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.

Grave Exchange

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Target player sacrifices a creature.

Offer Immortality

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Mental Agony

Target player discards two cards and loses 2 life.

Alley Grifters

Whenever Alley Grifters becomes blocked, defending player discards a card.

Bog Witch

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Shadowgrange Archfiend

When Shadowgrange Archfiend enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way.
Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Killing Wave

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

Cackling Fiend

When Cackling Fiend enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Culling the Weak

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

Desecration Demon

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature. If a player does, tap Desecration Demon and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Three Tragedies

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Tendrils of Despair

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Target opponent discards two cards.

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.

Moment of Defiance

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Unnerve

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This creature can't block."
{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

Bottomless Pit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Specter's Wail

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Diabolic Edict

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, 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.)

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.

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.

Undercity Plague

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Remorseless Punishment

Target opponent loses 5 life unless that player discards two cards or sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Repeat this process once.

Unmarked Grave

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

Inscription of Ruin

Kicker {2}{B}{B}
Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less.

Sadistic Glee

Enchant creature
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Gixian Infiltrator

Whenever you sacrifice another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Gixian Infiltrator.

Vraska's Fall

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker and gets a poison counter.

Hell's Caretaker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Quag Sickness

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each Swamp you control.

Pact Weapon

As long as Pact Weapon is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.

Necrobite

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Regenerate it. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat. Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Nightshade Seer

{2}{B}, {T}: Reveal any number of black cards in your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Final Punishment

Target player loses life equal to the damage already dealt to that player this turn.

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.

Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X.
Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

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.

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters the battlefield, 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).

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