Abhorrent Overlord

Flying
When Abhorrent Overlord enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Accursed Marauder

When Accursed Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Arcane Signet

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

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.

Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Blood on the Snow

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

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.

Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters, 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.

Crucible of Worlds

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}.

Cult Conscript

Cult Conscript enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return Cult Conscript from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.

Custodi Lich

When Custodi Lich enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Dark Ritual

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Demon's Disciple

When Demon's Disciple enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.

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.)

Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Exsanguinate

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

Fallen Ideal

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn."
When Fallen Ideal is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Fallen Ideal to its owner's hand.

Feed the Swarm

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

Fountainport

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
{3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
{4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

Fountainport Bell

When Fountainport Bell enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
{1}, Sacrifice Fountainport Bell: Draw a card.

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.)

Grim Servant

Menace
When Grim Servant enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

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.

Imp's Mischief

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

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Mephitic Draught

When Mephitic Draught enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Mindless Conscription

When Mindless Conscription enters and whenever you draw your third card each turn, amass Zombies 3. (Put three +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Morbid Opportunist

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

Mudflat Village

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Mudflat Village: Return target Bat, Lizard, Rat, or Squirrel card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mycosynth Wellspring

When Mycosynth Wellspring enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Oathsworn Vampire

Oathsworn Vampire enters tapped.
You may cast Oathsworn Vampire from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

Oubliette

When Oubliette enters, target creature phases out until Oubliette leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

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.

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Phyrexian Delver

When Phyrexian Delver enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Pile On

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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.)

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Prized Statue

When Prized Statue enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Rapacious Guest

Menace
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Food token.
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, put a +1/+1 counter on Rapacious Guest.
When Rapacious Guest leaves the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to its power.

Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Ruthless Knave

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Sacrifice three Treasures: Draw a card.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When Sepulchral Primordial enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Seraph Sanctuary

When Seraph Sanctuary enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever an Angel you control enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Snow-Covered Swamp

Sol Ring

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Sunstone

{2}, Sacrifice a snow land: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Swamp

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch
When Thorn of the Black Rose enters, you become the monarch.

Tithing Blade

When Tithing Blade enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Craft with creature {4}{B} ({4}{B}, Exile this artifact, Exile a creature you control or a creature card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)

Consuming Sepulcher

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher

Transguild Promenade

Transguild Promenade enters tapped.
When Transguild Promenade enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Uncharted Haven

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Underworld Hermit

When Underworld Hermit enters, create a number of 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Victimize

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

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.

Volatile Fault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Volatile Fault: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Woe Strider

When Woe Strider enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Woe Strider escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

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