Go for the Throat

Painful Quandary

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

Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Bottomless Pit

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

Oppression

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Jet Medallion

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

Solemn Simulacrum

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

Underworld Dreams

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

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.

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

Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.
{3}, Sacrifice Fountain of Renewal: Draw a card.

Mind Stone

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

Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters, each opponent discards a card.

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.

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When Noxious Gearhulk enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Nekrataal

First strike
When Nekrataal enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. That creature can't be regenerated.

Morbid Opportunist

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

Callous Bloodmage

When Callous Bloodmage enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

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.

Rug of Smothering

Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Cabal Coffers

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

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Helldozer

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, untap Helldozer.

Exsanguinate

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

Lithoform Blight

Enchant land
When Lithoform Blight enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}" and "{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color."

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.

Phyrexian Arena

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

Chains of Mephistopheles

If a player would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, that player discards a card instead. If the player discards a card this way, they draw a card. If the player doesn't discard a card this way, they mill a card.

Polluted Dead

When Polluted Dead dies, destroy target land.

Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ill-Gotten Gains

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

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.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Swamp

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Bad Deal

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

Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Dark Ritual

Archon of Cruelty

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

Bojuka Bog

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

Dark Deal

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

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Spreading Plague

Whenever a creature enters, destroy all other creatures that share a color with it. They can't be regenerated.

Vampiric Tutor

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

Reliquary Tower

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

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

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.

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.

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Fate Unraveler deals 1 damage to that player.

Skirge Familiar

Magus of the Coffers

Plaguecrafter

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

Feed the Swarm

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

Demonic Tutor

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

Bubbling Muck

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

Reanimate

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

Viseling

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Viseling deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When Necromancy enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Doom Blade

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Defile

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

Doomsday Excruciator

Flying
When Doomsday Excruciator enters, if it was cast, each player exiles all but the bottom six cards of their library face down.
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card.

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted deals 1 damage to that player.
−2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

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.

Price of Knowledge

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Price of Knowledge deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up.
+ {2} — Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

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}.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When Orcish Bowmasters enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Koskun Falls

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Koskun Falls unless you tap an untapped creature you control.
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

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

Marchesa's Decree

When Marchesa's Decree enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Hero's Downfall

Boggart Trawler

When Boggart Trawler enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Boggart Bog

As Boggart Bog enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog

Leaden Myr

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.

Nirkana Revenant

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

Imp's Mischief

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

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

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.

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

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.)

Mutilate

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

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Black Vise

As Black Vise enters, choose an opponent.
At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, Black Vise deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

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.

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Final Act

Choose one or more —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
• Destroy all battles.
• Exile all graveyards.
• Each opponent loses all counters.

Misers' Cage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has five or more cards in hand, Misers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player.

Skullcage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Skullcage deals 2 damage to that player unless they have exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Iron Maiden

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Iron Maiden deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of cards in their hand minus 4.

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