Withering Boon

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

Doom Blade

Painful Quandary

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

Nezumi Informant

When Nezumi Informant enters, each opponent discards a card.

Go for the Throat

Hidden Necropolis

Hidden Necropolis enters 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.)

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Megrim

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

Swamp

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Hopeless Nightmare

When Hopeless Nightmare enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
When Hopeless Nightmare is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2.
{2}{B}: Sacrifice Hopeless Nightmare.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Phyrexian Totem

{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}: Phyrexian Totem becomes a 5/5 black Phyrexian Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
Whenever Phyrexian Totem is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Arcane Signet

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

Wastes

Snow-Covered Wastes

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

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.

Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Cao Cao, Lord of Wei

{T}: Target opponent discards two cards. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Liliana's Caress

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

Geth's Grimoire

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

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.

Mind Sludge

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Languish

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

Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Mutilate

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

Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters, each opponent discards a card.

Mind Shatter

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Cling to Dust

Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

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

Hostile Negotiations

Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

Snow-Covered Swamp

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.

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, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Deadly Cover-Up

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6.
Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Defile

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

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Nevinyrral's Disk

Nevinyrral's Disk enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Charcoal Diamond

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

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Dogged Detective

When Dogged Detective enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return Dogged Detective from your graveyard to your hand.

Ebony Fly

Ebony Fly enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}: Roll a d6. Until end of turn, you may have Ebony Fly become an X/X Insect artifact creature with flying, where X is the result.
Whenever Ebony Fly attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

The Cruelty of Gix

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 — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Feed the Swarm

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

Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Bitter Triumph

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

Arterial Flow

Each opponent discards two cards. If you control a Vampire, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Mind Stone

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

Royal Assassin

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Kaervek, the Punisher

Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When Bandit's Talent enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card.
{B}: Level 2
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life.
{3}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Jet Medallion

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

Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Orazca Relic: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Ophiomancer

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

Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Elderfang Disciple

When Elderfang Disciple enters, each opponent discards a card.

Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Infernal Darkness

Cumulative upkeep—Pay {B} and 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type.

Seer's Lantern

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.

Noetic Scales

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in their hand.

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Black Cat

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

Seal of Doom

Sacrifice Seal of Doom: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Exsanguinate

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

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.

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