Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Defile

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

Soul Burn

Spend only black and/or red mana on X.
Soul Burn deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more than the amount of {B} spent on X, the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Swamp

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Songs of the Damned

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

Victimize

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

Archon of Cruelty

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

Entomb

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

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Dark Ritual

Cabal Ritual

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

Ascendant Evincar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Other black creatures get +1/+1.
Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

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.)

Hypnotic Specter

Flying
Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Sol Ring

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Withered Wretch

Arcane Signet

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Tortured Existence

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

Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Cabal Coffers

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

Virtue of Persistence

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Locthwain Scorn

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Hell's Caretaker

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

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.)

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Grief

Menace
When Grief enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Evoke—Exile a black card from your hand.

Bubbling Muck

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

Undead Gladiator

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return Undead Gladiator from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cabal Stronghold

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

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Blood Pet

Gifted Aetherborn

Wall of Souls

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever Wall of Souls is dealt combat damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

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.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

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

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{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.)

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Phyrexian Obliterator

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

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Reanimate

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

Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, Creeping Bloodsucker deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem

Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Night's Whisper

Demonic Tutor

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

Vampiric Tutor

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

Nantuko Shade

{B}: Nantuko Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Liliana of the Veil

+1: Each player discards a card.
−2: Target player sacrifices a creature.
−6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate 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 Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Spirit of the Night

Flying, trample, haste, protection from black
Spirit of the Night has first strike as long as it's attacking.

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