Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Flying, lifelink
Whenever Aclazotz attacks, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
When Aclazotz dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Temple of the Dead

(Transforms from Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}: Transform Temple of the Dead. Activate only if a player has one or fewer cards in hand and only as a sorcery.

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

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.

Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever Archon of Cruelty enters the battlefield or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Awaken the Erstwhile

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then creates that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Bad Deal

You draw two cards and each opponent discards two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Black Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Abyssal Nocturnus

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Abyssal Nocturnus gets +2/+2 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Bloodtithe Collector

Flying
When Bloodtithe Collector enters the battlefield, if an opponent lost life this turn, each opponent discards a card.

Chain of Smog

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Capital Punishment

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for death or taxes. Each opponent sacrifices a creature for each death vote and discards a card for each taxes vote.

Bite of the Black Rose

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

Bloodsoaked Altar

{T}, Pay 2 life, Discard a card, Sacrifice a creature: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only as a sorcery.

Bone Shards

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

Bottomless Pit

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

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. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.

Addle

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and you choose a card of that color from it. That player discards that card.

Bloodsworn Squire

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Bloodsworn Squire gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Then if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard, transform Bloodsworn Squire. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Bloodsworn Knight

Bloodsworn Knight's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
{1}{B}, Discard a card: Bloodsworn Knight gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Bloodsworn Squire // Bloodsworn Knight

Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Bog Witch

Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Chilling Apparition

{B}: Regenerate Chilling Apparition.
Whenever Chilling Apparition deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Concealing Curtains

Defender
{2}{B}: Transform Concealing Curtains. Activate only as a sorcery.

Revealing Eye

Menace
When this creature transforms into Revealing Eye, target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player discards that card, then draws a card.

Concealing Curtains // Revealing Eye

Containment Construct

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. If you do, you may play that card this turn.

Creeping Dread

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Each opponent who discarded a card that shares a card type with the card you discarded loses 3 life. (Players reveal the discarded cards simultaneously.)

Cruel Grimnarch

Deathtouch
When Cruel Grimnarch enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you gain 4 life.

Drainpipe Vermin

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

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

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.

Cut Down

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Swamp

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.

Delirium Skeins

Necrotic Fumes

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature you control.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Murder

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

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.

Doom Blade

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Murderous Rider // Swift End

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Killing Wave

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

Tourach, Dread Cantor

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Protection from white
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach, Dread Cantor.
When Tourach enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Gumdrop Poisoner

Lifelink
When Gumdrop Poisoner enters the battlefield, up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Tempt with Treats

Create a Food token. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats

Quest for the Nihil Stone

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may put a quest counter on Quest for the Nihil Stone.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand and Quest for the Nihil Stone has two or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 5 life.

Batterskull

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink.
{3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand.
Equip {5}

Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink
When Deep-Cavern Bat enters the battlefield, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until Deep-Cavern Bat leaves the battlefield.

Fell Specter

Flying
When Fell Specter enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Reliquary Tower

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

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Eradicator Valkyrie

Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers
Boast — {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip {3}

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Henrika Domnathi

Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Each player sacrifices a creature.
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Transform Henrika Domnathi.

Henrika, Infernal Seer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
{1}{B}{B}: Each creature you control with flying, deathtouch, and/or lifelink gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer

Kamber, the Plunderer

Partner with Laurine, the Diversion (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Laurine into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Lifelink
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life and create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Liliana's Caress

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

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.

Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Mark of the Vampire

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Cartouche of Ambition

Enchant creature you control
When Cartouche of Ambition enters the battlefield, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

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

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Pilfering Imp

Flying
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Pilfering Imp: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Blood Fountain

When Blood Fountain enters the battlefield, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{3}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Blood Fountain: Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Hidden Necropolis

Hidden Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Necropolis: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

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.

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.

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