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Commander

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75

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Artifact

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Phoenix Fleet Airship
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you sacrificed a permanent this turn, create a token that's a copy of this Vehicle.
As long as you control eight or more permanents named Phoenix Fleet Airship, this Vehicle is an artifact creature.
Crew 1
Artifact - Vehicle
Phoenix Fleet Airship (tla) 114

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Card Advantage

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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.
Legendary Creature - Nightmare
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (eoc) 82
Deadly Dispute
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Deadly Dispute (tdc) 177
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.)
Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Lolth, Spider Queen
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth.
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."
Legendary Planeswalker - Lolth
Lolth, Spider Queen (afr) 112
Midnight Reaper
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Midnight Reaper (fdn) 609
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (tdc) 188
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (onc) 94
Peer into the Abyss
Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.
Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Priest of Forgotten Gods
, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add
and draw a card.
Creature - Human Cleric
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rvr) 90
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Vampiric Rites
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (fdn) 615

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Drain

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Funeral Room
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 100

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Draw

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Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
Smothering Abomination
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.
Creature - Eldrazi
Smothering Abomination (bfz) 99
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

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Finishers

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Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment 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.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (plst) IKO-73
Graf Harvest
Zombies you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Enchantment
Graf Harvest (emn) 90
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Marionette Apprentice
Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Human Artificer
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Mirkwood Bats
Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Bat
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 95
Starscape Cleric
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
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 deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Vindictive Vampire
Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Vindictive Vampire (clu) 126

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Instant

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Fatal Fissure
Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, you earthbend 4. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that's still a land. Put four +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.)
Instant
Fatal Fissure (tla) 97

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Land

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Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Crypt of Agadeem
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Land
Crypt of Agadeem (tdc) 354
Haunted Fengraf
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Haunted Fengraf (c18) 254
Memorial to Folly
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Memorial to Folly (tdc) 377
Realm of Koh
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
: Add
.
,
: Create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."
Land
Realm of Koh (tla) 276
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tdm) 282

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Protection

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Abnormal Endurance
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Abnormal Endurance (m19) 85
Cauldron of Souls
: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Artifact
Cauldron of Souls (plst) CM2-180
Demonic Gifts
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."
Instant
Demonic Gifts (j22) 398
Demonic Vigor
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to its owner's hand.
Enchantment - Aura
Demonic Vigor (plst) DOM-85
Fake Your Own Death
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Fake Your Own Death (fdn) 174
Feign Death
Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."
Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Fungal Fortitude
Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
Enchantment - Aura
Fungal Fortitude (lci) 106
Kaya's Ghostform
Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment - Aura
Kaya's Ghostform (plst) WAR-94
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."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Minion's Return
Flash
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment - Aura
Minion's Return (thb) 104
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 token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Unholy Indenture
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter on it.
Enchantment - Aura
Unholy Indenture (m20) 119

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Ramp

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Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Crypt Ghast
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional
.
Creature - Spirit
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (a25) 82
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (fdn) 724
Pitiless Plunderer
Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Pirate
Pitiless Plunderer (lcc) 208

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Recursion

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Afterlife from the Loam
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
For each player, choose up to one target creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're Zombies in addition to their other types.
Sorcery
Afterlife from the Loam (tdc) 25
Defiled Crypt
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Horror enchantment creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab (dsk) 91
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.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Gravedig
Choose one —
• Target player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Sorcery
Gravedig (mh3) 96
Gravedigger
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie
Gravedigger (j25) 452
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.
Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (tdc) 198
Virtue of Persistence
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115

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Removal

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Baleful Mastery
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the
cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Blasphemous Edict
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
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.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (tdc) 176
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (tdc) 180
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (eoc) 84
Massacre Wurm
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Creature - Wurm Phyrexian
Massacre Wurm (fdn) 714
Murderous Rider
Lifelink
When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Murderous Rider // Swift End (moc) 258
Oubliette
When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment 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.)
Enchantment
Oubliette (2xm) 100
Ravenous Chupacabra
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Creature - Beast Horror
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Soul Shatter
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Instant
Soul Shatter (znr) 127
Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Sac Fodder

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Chittering Witch
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Creature - Human Warlock
Chittering Witch (tdc) 175
Deathbloom Thallid
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Creature - Fungus
Deathbloom Thallid (m21) 94
Discordant Piper
When this creature dies, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Creature - Zombie Satyr
Discordant Piper (thb) 88
Doomed Dissenter
When this creature dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Human
Doomed Dissenter (j25) 425
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (cmm) 155
Gisa, the Hellraiser
Ward—
, Pay 2 life.
Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace.
Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Gisa, the Hellraiser (otj) 89
Joo Dee, One of Many
,
: Surveil 1. Create a token that's a copy of this creature, then sacrifice an artifact or creature. Activate only as a sorcery. (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Advisor
Joo Dee, One of Many (tla) 105
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warrior
Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet (ogw) 86
Lord Skitter, Sewer King
Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."
Legendary Creature - Rat Noble
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Lord Skitter's Butcher
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."
• You may sacrifice another creature. If you do, scry 2, then draw a card.
• Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn.
Creature - Rat Peasant
Lord Skitter's Butcher (woe) 99
Marsh Flitter
Flying
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens.
Sacrifice a Goblin: This creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Marsh Flitter (znc) 46
Nine-Lives Familiar
This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it.
When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Cat
Nine-Lives Familiar (fdn) 66
Ophiomancer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Creature - Human Shaman
Ophiomancer (tdc) 193
Putrid Goblin
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Creature - Goblin Zombie
Putrid Goblin (plst) MH1-101
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (tdc) 195
Timeline Culler
Haste
You may cast this card from your graveyard using its warp ability.
Warp—
, Pay 2 life. (You may cast this card from your hand or graveyard for its warp cost. If you do, exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Warlock Drix
Timeline Culler (eoe) 121

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Sac Outlet

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Carrion Feeder
This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Carrion Feeder (mh1) 81
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.
Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (cmm) 866
Ghoulcaller Gisa
,
, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Ghoulcaller Gisa (cmm) 161
Umbral Collar Zealot
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Umbral Collar Zealot (eoe) 123
Woe Strider
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—
, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Horror
Woe Strider (tdc) 201

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Midnight Ritual
Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Sorcery
Midnight Ritual (10e) 158
Pox Plague
Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice. Round down each time.
Sorcery
Pox Plague (sos) 94

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Cryptbreaker
,
, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Zombie
Cryptbreaker (drc) 41
Endless Ranks of the Dead
At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.
Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (mic) 116

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Dying to Serve
Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Enchantment
Dying to Serve (vow) 109

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