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Commander

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Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
Deathtouch
Throw — Whenever Shadow deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice another nonland permanent. If you do, draw two cards and each opponent loses life equal to the mana value of the sacrificed permanent.
Legendary Creature - Human Assassin
Shadow, Mysterious Assassin (fic) 50

Commander

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Cards for hurting people

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Bygone Colossus
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature Artifact - Giant Robot
Bygone Colossus (eoe) 235
Chitin Gravestalker
This spell costs
less to cast for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Warrior Insect
Chitin Gravestalker (dft) 79
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 (thb) 99
Huskburster Swarm
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card you own in exile and in your graveyard.
Menace, deathtouch
Creature - Elemental Insect
Huskburster Swarm (blb) 98
Shadow of Mortality
If your life total is less than your starting life total, this spell costs
less to cast, where X is the difference.
Creature - Avatar
Shadow of Mortality (snc) 94

Cards for hurting people

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Drain

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Grievous Wound
Enchant player
Enchanted player can't gain life.
Whenever enchanted player is dealt damage, they lose half their life, rounded up.
Enchantment - Aura
Grievous Wound (dsk) 416
Wound Reflection
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Enchantment
Wound Reflection (who) 471

Drain

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Draw

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Anticausal Vestige
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card, then you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Anticausal Vestige (peoe) 1p
Hollow Marauder
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flying
When this creature enters, any number of target opponents each discard a card. For each of those opponents who didn't discard a card with mana value 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creature - Rogue Specter
Hollow Marauder (otj) 90
Mephitic Draught
When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Artifact
Mephitic Draught (lci) 112
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m15) 114
Treasure Keeper
When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Treasure Keeper (a25) 235

Draw

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Evasion

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Brotherhood Regalia
Equipped creature has ward
, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked.
Equip legendary creature

Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Brotherhood Regalia (acr) 71
Key to the City
, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Artifact
Key to the City (c19) 216
Psychic Paper
As this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name and a creature type.
Equipped creature has ward
, it can't be blocked, and its name and creature type are the last chosen name and creature type.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Psychic Paper (who) 181
Thieves' Tools
When this Equipment enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Equipped creature can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Thieves' Tools (clb) 152
Whispersilk Cloak
Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Whispersilk Cloak (ltc) 292

Evasion

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Land

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Access Tunnel
: Add
.
,
: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Access Tunnel (tdc) 337
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (soc) 380
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (soc) 400
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (war) 256
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (plc) 165

Land

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Mill

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Desperate Bloodseeker
Lifelink
When this creature enters, target player mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Vampire
Desperate Bloodseeker (otj) 86
Mire Triton
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Merfolk Zombie
Mire Triton (scd) 92
Ripples of Undeath
At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay
and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.
Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Scarblade Scout
Lifelink
When this creature enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Elf Scout
Scarblade Scout (ecl) 118
Shinra Reinforcements
When this creature enters, mill three cards and you gain 3 life. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Soldier
Shinra Reinforcements (fin) 118
Stitcher's Supplier
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Zombie
Stitcher's Supplier (fic) 287
Twilight Diviner
When this creature 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 one or more other creatures you control enter, if they entered or were cast from a graveyard, create a token that's a copy of one of them. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Cleric Elf
Twilight Diviner (ecl) 122
Undead Butler
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
When this creature dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie
Undead Butler (j25) 500

Mill

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Protection

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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 (otj) 87
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 (plst) AFR-103
Perigee Beckoner
When this creature enters, until end of turn, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Horror
Perigee Beckoner (eoe) 112
Supernatural Stamina
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
Supernatural Stamina (cmr) 151
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 355

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Ramp

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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 (c14) 139
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
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.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (soc) 355
The Darkness Crystal
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
,
: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96

Ramp

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Recursion

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Archpriest of Shadows
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Human Warlock
Archpriest of Shadows (pmom) 89p
Body Launderer
Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, this creature connives.
When this creature dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Rogue Ogre
Body Launderer (snc) 68
Bringer of the Last Gift
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bringer of the Last Gift (lci) 94
Coiling Rebirth
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.
Sorcery
Coiling Rebirth (blb) 86
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 (c14) 142
Gorex, the Tombshell
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs
less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Deathtouch
Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Turtle
Gorex, the Tombshell (j25) 67
Ichorid
Haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard, you may exile a black creature card other than this card from your graveyard. If you do, return this card to the battlefield.
Creature - Horror
Ichorid (ema) 93
Puppeteer Clique
Flying
When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
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 - Wizard Faerie
Puppeteer Clique (ecc) 84
Rejoin the Fight
Mill three cards. Then starting with the next opponent in turn order, each opponent chooses a creature card in your graveyard that hasn't been chosen. Return each card chosen this way to the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rejoin the Fight (fic) 49
Restart Sequence
Freerunning
(You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Restart Sequence (acr) 30
Sepulchral Primordial
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Avatar
Sepulchral Primordial (fic) 284
The Cauldron of Eternity
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
,
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact
The Cauldron of Eternity (eld) 82
Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It's a Skeleton in addition to its other types and has no abilities. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist (eoe) 127

Recursion

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Removal

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Archfiend of Depravity
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Depravity (scd) 67
Bitter Triumph
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Bitter Triumph (soa) 26
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
Come Back Wrong
Destroy target creature. If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.
Sorcery
Come Back Wrong (dsk) 292
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 (tle) 257
Quag Feast
Choose target creature, planeswalker, or Vehicle. Mill two cards, then destroy the chosen permanent if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Quag Feast (pdft) 100p
Ravenous Chupacabra
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Creature - Beast Horror
Ravenous Chupacabra (plst) RIX-82
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 313

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Tokens

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Wand of Orcus
Whenever equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Wand of Orcus (afc) 28

Tokens

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Tutor

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Rune-Scarred Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Demon
Rune-Scarred Demon (fdn) 184

Tutor

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Winning without shadow

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Ninja's Blades
Job select
Equipped creature gets +1/+1, is a Ninja in addition to its other types, and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card. That player loses life equal to the discarded card's mana value."
Mutsunokami — Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Ninja's Blades (fin) 108
Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
Sneak

First strike
Whenever Shark Shredder deals combat damage to a player, put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It enters tapped and attacking that player.
Legendary Creature - Octopus Ninja Shark
Shark Shredder, Killer Clone (tmt) 73
Summon: Primal Odin
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Gungnir — Destroy target creature an opponent controls.
II — Zantetsuken — This creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
III — Hall of Sorrow — Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
Creature Enchantment - Knight Saga
Summon: Primal Odin (fin) 121

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