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Commander

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K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
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.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274

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Anthem

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Skeleton Crew
Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1.
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.)
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton Pirate
Skeleton Crew (lcc) 85

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Burn

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Dire Fleet Ravager
Menace, deathtouch
When this creature enters, each player loses a third of their life, rounded up.
Creature - Wizard Orc Pirate
Dire Fleet Ravager (lcc) 192

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Counters

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Drana, Liberator of Malakir
Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Ally
Drana, Liberator of Malakir (dmc) 111
Venom, Evil Unleashed
Deathtouch
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains deathtouch until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Villain Symbiote
Venom, Evil Unleashed (spm) 71
Wall of Limbs
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses X life, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Zombie Wall
Wall of Limbs (tdc) 200

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Creature

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Baron Helmut Zemo
Whenever you cast a black spell from your hand, Baron Helmut Zemo connives.
Boast — Exile any number of black cards from your graveyard with fifteen or more black mana symbols among their mana costs: Copy those exiled cards. You may cast up to three of the copies without paying their mana costs. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
Legendary Creature - Human Villain Noble
Baron Helmut Zemo (msh) 87
Burrog Banemaker
Deathtouch
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Frog Warlock
Burrog Banemaker (sos) 75
Dread Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Dread Shade (dom) 88
Forum Necroscribe
Ward—Discard a card.
Repartee — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets a creature, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Troll Warlock
Forum Necroscribe (sos) 84
Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Flying
When Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Bird Warlock
Moseo, Vein's New Dean (sos) 91
Poisoner's Apprentice
Infusion — When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -4/-4 until end of turn if you gained life this turn.
Creature - Orc Warlock
Poisoner's Apprentice (sos) 92
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
Scathing Shadelock
At the beginning of your first main phase, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Snake Warlock
Scathing Shadelock // Venomous Words (sos) 98
Sneering Shadewriter
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Sneering Shadewriter (sos) 101

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Discard

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Torment of Scarabs
Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Torment of Scarabs (hou) 78

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Drain

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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 (tle) 160
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (soc) 209
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
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Raven of Fell Omens
Flying
Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Bird
Raven of Fell Omens (otj) 101
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 (moc) 269
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (tsr) 337

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Draw

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Ambition's Cost
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (dmc) 110
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
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
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
Corrupted Conviction
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Cunning Rhetoric
Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Enchantment
Cunning Rhetoric (otc) 129
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (c21) 139
Dark Prophecy
Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Dark Prophecy (m14) 93
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 (afr) 94
Decode Transmissions
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Void — If a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, instead you draw two cards and each opponent loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Decode Transmissions (eoe) 94
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (cmm) 868
Foulmire Knight
Deathtouch
Creature - Knight Zombie
Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight (moc) 249
Funeral Rites
You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.
Sorcery
Funeral Rites (thb) 97
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Henrika Domnathi
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Transform Henrika.
Legendary Creature - Vampire
Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer (vow) 119Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer (vow) 119
Infernal Tribute
, Sacrifice a nontoken permanent: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Infernal Tribute (wth) 73
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
Flying
Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder (dmc) 114
Liliana's Standard Bearer
Flash
When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Liliana's Standard Bearer (moc) 255
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 (moc) 257
Minions' Murmurs
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Sorcery
Minions' Murmurs (tsr) 124
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (soc) 219
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (dmc) 115
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Phyrexian Etchings
Cumulative upkeep
(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.)
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card for each age counter on this enchantment.
When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose 2 life for each age counter on it.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Etchings (plst) CSP-67
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 (rna) 83
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 (moc) 267
Reckoner's Bargain
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.
Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120
Requiem Monolith
: Until end of turn, target creature gains "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you draw that many cards and lose that much life." That creature's controller may have this artifact deal 1 damage to it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Requiem Monolith (eoe) 113
Risky Research
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
Risky Research (spm) 62
Shelob, Dread Weaver
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it.
, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card.
: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.
Legendary Creature - Demon Spider
Shelob, Dread Weaver (ltc) 29
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m13) 110
Spark Reaper
, Sacrifice a creature or planeswalker: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Zombie
Spark Reaper (war) 106
Succumb to Temptation
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Instant
Succumb to Temptation (emn) 107
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117
Voidforged Titan
Void — At the beginning of your end step, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Warrior Robot
Voidforged Titan (eoe) 125
Voldaren Bloodcaster
Flying
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you create a Blood token, if you control five or more Blood tokens, transform this creature.
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner (vow) 137Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner (vow) 137

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Evasion

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Forebear's Blade
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has vigilance and trample.
Whenever equipped creature dies, attach this Equipment to target creature you control.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Forebear's Blade (dom) 214
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

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
Revenant
Flying
Revenant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Spirit
Revenant (cmr) 147
Writhing Necromass
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Deathtouch
Creature - Zombie Giant
Writhing Necromass (dmu) 115

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Instant

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Masterful Flourish
Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Masterful Flourish (sos) 89

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (tdc) 341
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Mortuary Mire
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
: Add
.
Land
Mortuary Mire (bfz) 240
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (spm) 196
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (soc) 422
Westvale Abbey
: Add
.
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
,
, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.
Land
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 287Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 287
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Lifegain

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Grotesque Mutation
Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)
Instant
Grotesque Mutation (soi) 115
Mark of the Vampire
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.
Enchantment - Aura
Mark of the Vampire (xln) 113
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.
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Sangromancer (j25) 122
Vampire Nighthawk
Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Vampire Nighthawk (fdn) 186

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Mill

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Corpse Churn
Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Instant
Corpse Churn (cmr) 113
Mindwrack Harpy
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player mills three cards.
Creature Enchantment - Harpy
Mindwrack Harpy (cmm) 869
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 (m19) 121

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Proliferate

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Staff of Compleation
, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
: Untap this artifact.
Artifact
Staff of Compleation (tdc) 326

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Protection

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Boon of Erebos
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Boon of Erebos (ths) 80
Consecrated by Blood
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and "Sacrifice two other creatures: Regenerate this creature." (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Enchantment - Aura
Consecrated by Blood (ori) 87
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 (dom) 85
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
Kor Dirge
All damage that would be dealt this turn to target creature you control by a source of your choice is dealt to another target creature instead.
Instant
Kor Dirge (tsr) 120
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (soc) 350
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
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
Revenge of Ravens
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207
Undying Malice
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
Undying Malice (fdn) 528

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature

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Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Cranial Plating
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
: Attach this Equipment to target creature you control.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Cranial Plating (brc) 136
Leyline Axe
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Leyline Axe (fdn) 129
Scytheclaw
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.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Scytheclaw (znc) 118

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
Black Market
Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add
for each charge counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Black Market (pip) 183
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 (akh) 225
Bubbling Muck
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
Burnished Hart
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Elk
Burnished Hart (ths) 213
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) 322
Cryptolith Fragment
This artifact enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color. Each player loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if each player has 10 or less life, transform this artifact.
Artifact
Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (5ed) 153
Defiler of Flesh
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
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.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 400
Embalmer's Tools
Activated abilities of creature cards in your graveyard cost
less to activate.
Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target player mills a card.
Artifact
Embalmer's Tools (akh) 227
Explorer's Scope
Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Explorer's Scope (zen) 202
Gilded Lotus
: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Gilded Lotus (brr) 80
Hedron Archive
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Hedron Archive (dmc) 184
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Liliana of the Dark Realms
+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '
: Add
.'"
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m14) 102
Nirkana Revenant
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional
.
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Vampire Shade
Nirkana Revenant (voc) 134
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
Prying Blade
Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Prying Blade (xln) 244
Sisay's Ring
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Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340
Sol Ring
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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 (brc) 161
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
Troll of Khazad-dûm
This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Troll
Troll of Khazad-dûm (ltr) 111
Worn Powerstone
This artifact enters tapped.
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Artifact
Worn Powerstone (ltc) 293

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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (soc) 207
Cult Conscript
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Cult Conscript (dmu) 88
Doomed Necromancer
,
, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Human Cleric Mercenary
Doomed Necromancer (afc) 98
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
Emperor of Bones
At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target card from a graveyard.
: Adapt 2.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, put a creature card exiled with this creature onto the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on it. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Skeleton Noble
Emperor of Bones (mh3) 90
Grave Endeavor
Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.
Instant
Grave Endeavor (afc) 24
Gravecrawler
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Creature - Zombie
Gravecrawler (tdc) 93
Incarnation Technique
Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.)
Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Incarnation Technique (sld) 1776
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203
Macabre Waltz
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.
Sorcery
Macabre Waltz (fdn) 177
Moira, Urborg Haunt
Menace
Whenever Moira deals combat damage to a player, return to the battlefield target creature card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Spirit
Moira, Urborg Haunt (dmc) 6
Order of Midnight
Flying
This creature can't block.
Creature - Human Knight
Order of Midnight // Alter Fate (moc) 261
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194
Prison Break
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Mayhem
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for
if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Sorcery
Prison Break (spm) 61
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 (ltc) 206
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (afc) 109
The Grim Captain's Locker
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—
, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Legendary Artifact
The Grim Captain's Locker (lcc) 82
Unearth
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Unearth (mh1) 113
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 (afc) 112
Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink.
,
: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159
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 (peoe) 127s

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Accursed Marauder
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Creature - Warrior Zombie
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 405
Archenemy's Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target creature or planeswalker.
• Return one or two target creature and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. It gains lifelink until end of turn.
Instant
Archenemy's Charm (eoe) 88
Argentum Armor
Equipped creature gets +6/+6.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target permanent.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Argentum Armor (c14) 228
Armix, Filigree Thrasher
Whenever Armix attacks, you may discard a card. When you do, target creature defending player controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control plus the number of artifact cards in your graveyard.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature Artifact - Golem
Armix, Filigree Thrasher (brc) 103
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
Bitter Downfall
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.
Instant
Bitter Downfall (ltr) 77
Blood Money
Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.
Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
Cast Down
Destroy target nonlegendary creature.
Instant
Cast Down (dom) 81
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.
Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 407
Decree of Pain
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Decree of Pain (ltc) 199
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (soa) 93
Eaten Alive
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay
.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Sorcery
Eaten Alive (fdn) 172
Epic Downfall
Exile target creature with mana value 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Epic Downfall (eld) 85
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
Fleshbag Marauder
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Warrior Zombie
Fleshbag Marauder (gnt) 29
Gilt-Leaf Winnower
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature enters, you may destroy target non-Elf creature whose power and toughness aren't equal.
Creature - Warrior Elf
Gilt-Leaf Winnower (cmr) 130
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Hero's Downfall
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (tdc) 182
Intimidation Tactics
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it. Exile that card.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Intimidation Tactics (dft) 92
Kuon, Ogre Ascendant
At the beginning of the end step, if three or more creatures died this turn, flip Kuon.
Legendary Creature - Monk Ogre
Kuon, Ogre Ascendant // Kuon's Essence (sok) 78
Languish
All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Languish (ltc) 202
Lash of the Balrog
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay
.
Destroy target creature.
Sorcery
Lash of the Balrog (ltr) 408
Last Gasp
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Instant
Last Gasp (sos) 86
Lethal Scheme
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Instant
Lethal Scheme (lcc) 201
Locust Spray
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Instant
Locust Spray (soa) 31
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
Meathook Massacre II
When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Legendary Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 108
Murder
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Murder (mkm) 300
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
Necromantic Selection
Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.
Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (afc) 103
Noxious Gearhulk
Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Noxious Gearhulk (brc) 110
Plaguecrafter
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Creature - Human Shaman
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
Shadows' Verdict
Exile all creatures and planeswalkers with mana value 3 or less from the battlefield and all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value 3 or less from all graveyards.
Sorcery
Shadows' Verdict (znr) 124
Sheoldred's Edict
Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.
Instant
Sheoldred's Edict (one) 108
Shriekmaw
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Shriekmaw (afc) 110
Stone of Erech
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
,
, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
Legendary Artifact
Stone of Erech (ltr) 251
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 of their choice.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment - Saga
The Eldest Reborn (cmm) 867
The Spot's Portal
Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. You lose 2 life unless you control a Villain.
Instant
The Spot's Portal (spm) 68
Tip the Scales
Sacrifice a creature. When you do, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
Sorcery
Tip the Scales (tdc) 29
Tragic Slip
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
Instant
Tragic Slip (inr) 134
Tymaret, Chosen from Death
Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Demigod
Tymaret, Chosen from Death (thb) 263
Voracious Fell Beast
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Create a Food token for each creature sacrificed this way. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Creature - Beast Drake
Voracious Fell Beast (ltr) 113
Walk the Plank
Destroy target non-Merfolk creature.
Sorcery
Walk the Plank (xln) 130
Will of the Abzan
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Will of the Abzan (tdc) 31
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124
Zodiark, Umbral God
Indestructible
When Zodiark enters, each player sacrifices half the non-God creatures they control of their choice, rounded down.
Whenever a player sacrifices another creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Zodiark.
Legendary Creature - God
Zodiark, Umbral God (fin) 128

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Demon of Catastrophes
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Flying, trample
Creature - Demon
Demon of Catastrophes (m19) 91
Viscera Seer
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Viscera Seer (cmr) 158

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End of the Hunt
Target opponent exiles a creature or planeswalker they control with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Sorcery
End of the Hunt (sos) 81
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
Pull from the Grave
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life.
Sorcery
Pull from the Grave (sos) 95
Withering Curse
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Infusion — If you gained life this turn, destroy all creatures instead.
Sorcery
Withering Curse (sos) 105

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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

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Bridge from Below
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, if this card is in your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if this card is in your graveyard, exile this card.
Enchantment
Bridge from Below (uma) 87
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
Graveyard Marshal
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Graveyard Marshal (m19) 99
Josu Vess, Lich Knight
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Menace
When Josu Vess enters, if it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.
Legendary Creature - Knight Zombie
Josu Vess, Lich Knight (moc) 253
Liliana's Mastery
Zombies you control get +1/+1.
When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Enchantment
Liliana's Mastery (gnt) 32
Magus of the Bridge
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, exile this creature.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Bridge (mh2) 92
Noosegraf Mob
This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell, remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Zombie
Noosegraf Mob (emn) 98
Open the Graves
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Enchantment
Open the Graves (m19) 112
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 (soc) 118
Rite of Belzenlok
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Create two 0/1 black Cleric creature tokens.
III — Create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying, trample, and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another creature. If you can't, this token deals 6 damage to you."
Enchantment - Saga
Rite of Belzenlok (dom) 102
The Book of Vile Darkness
At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91
Tormod, the Desecrator
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

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Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273

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