Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Exhume

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

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, 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.

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.

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of 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.

Cabal Coffers

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

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Lake of the Dead

If Lake of the Dead would enter the battlefield, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Phyrexian Tower

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

Volrath's Stronghold

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

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Blood Pet

Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.
Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Skirge Familiar

Dark Ritual

Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Phyrexian Tribute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice two creatures.
Destroy target artifact.

Songs of the Damned

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

Reanimate

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

Shauku, Endbringer

Flying
Shauku, Endbringer can't attack if there's another creature on the battlefield.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.
{T}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Shauku.

Spirit of the Night

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

Greed

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step.
{2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.

Ritual of the Machine

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Gain control of target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.

Terror

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Slaughter

Buyback—Pay 4 life. (You may pay 4 life in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Nantuko Husk

Sacrifice a creature: Nantuko Husk gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

Twilight's Call

You may cast Twilight's Call as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Victimize

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

Fatal Blow

Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn. It can't be regenerated.

Gate to Phyrexia

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Apprentice Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Avatar of Woe

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Basal Thrull

Body Snatcher

When Body Snatcher enters the battlefield, exile it unless you discard a creature card.
When Body Snatcher dies, exile Body Snatcher and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Corpse Dance

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Blood Vassal

Carrionette

{2}{B}{B}: Exile Carrionette and target creature unless that creature's controller pays {2}. Activate only if Carrionette is in your graveyard.

Carrion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Create X 0/1 black Insect creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Swamp

Draco

Domain — This spell costs {2} less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.
Flying
Domain — At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Draco unless you pay {10}. This cost is reduced by {2} for each basic land type among lands you control.

Strands of Night

{B}{B}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a Swamp: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Millikin

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Hypnox

Flying
When Hypnox enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, exile all cards from target opponent's hand.
When Hypnox leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's hand.

Teeka's Dragon

Flying; trample; rampage 4 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +4/+4 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)

Stratadon

Domain — This spell costs {1} less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.
Trample

Jet Medallion

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

Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as Filth is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Dawn of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Tortured Existence

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

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Thran Dynamo

Fellwar Stone

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

Volrath the Fallen

{1}{B}, Discard a creature card: Volrath the Fallen gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, 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.

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