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Commander

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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

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Anthem

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Vampire Nocturnus
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is black, this creature and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.
Creature - Vampire
Vampire Nocturnus (m13) 113

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Burn

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Baneful Omen
At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value.
Enchantment
Baneful Omen (roe) 96
Maga, Traitor to Mortals
Maga enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When Maga enters, target player loses life equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Maga, Traitor to Mortals (sok) 81
Sorin's Vengeance
Sorin's Vengeance deals 10 damage to target player or planeswalker and you gain 10 life.
Sorcery
Sorin's Vengeance (m12) 111
Temporal Extortion
When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81

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Counters

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Necropolis Regent
Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Vampire
Necropolis Regent (voc) 132

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Creature

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Baron Sengir
Flying
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Baron Sengir this turn dies, put a +2/+2 counter on Baron Sengir.
: Regenerate another target Vampire.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Noble
Baron Sengir (hml) 41
Commander Greven il-Vec
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When Commander Greven il-Vec enters, sacrifice a creature.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Phyrexian
Commander Greven il-Vec (tmp) 115
Cosmic Horror
First strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay
. If this creature is destroyed this way, it deals 7 damage to you.
Creature - Horror
Cosmic Horror (4ed) 126
Dread Reaper
Flying
When this creature enters, you lose 5 life.
Creature - Horror
Dread Reaper (s99) 76
Erebos's Titan
As long as your opponents control no creatures, this creature has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Whenever a creature card leaves an opponent's graveyard, you may discard a card. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Giant
Erebos's Titan (ori) 94
Ihsan's Shade
Protection from white
Legendary Creature - Knight Shade
Ihsan's Shade (a25) 94
Minion of Tevesh Szat
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you unless you pay
.
: Target creature gets +3/-2 until end of turn.
Creature - Demon Minion
Minion of Tevesh Szat (ice) 151
Pit Spawn
First strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay
.
Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature, exile that creature.
Creature - Demon
Pit Spawn (exo) 70
The Fallen
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and planeswalker it has dealt damage to this game.
Creature - Zombie
The Fallen (chr) 38
Umbra Stalker
Chroma — Umbra Stalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black mana symbols in the mana costs of cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Elemental
Umbra Stalker (eve) 48

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Cycling

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Scion of Darkness
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Avatar
Scion of Darkness (2x2) 86

Cycling

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Discard

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Myojin of Night's Reach
Myojin of Night's Reach enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Myojin of Night's Reach (fdn) 610
Volrath the Fallen
, Discard a creature card: Volrath gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Phyrexian
Volrath the Fallen (nem) 75

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Drain

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
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
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
Vein Ripper
Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire Assassin
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110

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Draw

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Archon of Cruelty
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Creature - Archon
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
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
Baleful Force
At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Elemental
Baleful Force (c13) 70
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
Bolas's Citadel
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
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 (tdc) 177
Lich's Mastery
Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
Legendary Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Monument to Endurance
Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.
Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 237
Necropotence
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Palantír of Orthanc
At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.
Legendary Artifact
Palantír of Orthanc (ltr) 247
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 (m21) 117
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Promise of Power
Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Sorcery
Promise of Power (dvd) 54
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
The War in Heaven
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
II — Mill three cards.
III — Choose up to three target creature cards with total mana value 8 or less in your graveyard. Return each of them to the battlefield with a necrodermis counter on it. They're artifacts in addition to their other types.
Enchantment - Saga
The War in Heaven (40k) 69
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vilis, Broker of Blood (m20) 122

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Evasion

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Intimidation
Creatures you control have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Enchantment
Intimidation (mmq) 142
Stronghold Overseer
Flying
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
: Creatures with shadow get +1/+0 until end of turn and creatures without shadow get -1/-0 until end of turn.
Creature - Demon
Stronghold Overseer (tsp) 133

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Finisher

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Doomsday Excruciator
Flying
When this creature 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.
Creature - Demon
Doomsday Excruciator (dsk) 94
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
Hellcarver Demon
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice all other permanents you control and discard your hand. Exile the top six cards of your library. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Creature - Demon
Hellcarver Demon (roe) 113
Minion of the Wastes
Trample
As this creature enters, pay any amount of life.
Minion of the Wastes's power and toughness are each equal to the life paid as it entered.
Creature - Minion
Minion of the Wastes (tmp) 146
Spirit of the Night
Flying, trample, haste, protection from black
Spirit of the Night has first strike as long as it's attacking.
Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit
Spirit of the Night (mir) 146
Sutured Ghoul
Trample
As this creature enters, exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard.
Sutured Ghoul's power is equal to the total power of the exiled cards and its toughness is equal to their total toughness.
Creature - Zombie
Sutured Ghoul (m12) 112
Xathrid Demon
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature, then each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. If you can't sacrifice a creature, tap this creature and you lose 7 life.
Creature - Demon
Xathrid Demon (c14) 170

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Land

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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
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Legendary Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 230
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sld) 2511
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

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Lifegain

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Chancellor of the Dross
You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Flying, lifelink
Creature - Vampire Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Dross (nph) 54
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Profane Transfusion
Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.
Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Shard of the Nightbringer
Flying
Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Creature - C'tan
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

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Mill

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Angel of Suffering
Flying
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.
Creature - Angel Nightmare
Angel of Suffering (snc) 67
Breach the Multiverse
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Golgari Thug
When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Human Warrior
Golgari Thug (rvr) 76
Mesmeric Orb
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Morality Shift
Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.
Sorcery
Morality Shift (jud) 70
Overlord of the Balemurk
Impending 5—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Overlord of the Balemurk (dsk) 113
Perpetual Timepiece
: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
, Exile this artifact: Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library.
Artifact
Perpetual Timepiece (soc) 354
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
Stinkweed Imp
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Imp
Stinkweed Imp (dvd) 36
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 (tdc) 196
Szarekh, the Silent King
Flying
My Will Be Done — Whenever Szarekh attacks, mill three cards. You may put an artifact creature card or Vehicle card from among the cards milled this way into your hand.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Necron
Szarekh, the Silent King (40k) 1

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Planeswalker

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Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
+1: Surveil 2.
−1: Any number of target players each discard a card.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ral
Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer (sos) 97

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Protection

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Dread
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Dread (lrw) 107
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
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
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
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 (tdc) 328
Uncle Istvan
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures.
Creature - Human
Uncle Istvan (tsb) 51

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Ramp

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Cabal Ritual
Add
.
Threshold — Add
instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
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
Culling the Weak
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add
.
Instant
Culling the Weak (exo) 55
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (a25) 82
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (soc) 347
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
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
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
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
Songs of the Damned
Add
for each creature card in your graveyard.
Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
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
The Soul Stone
Indestructible
: Add
.
,
, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone
The Soul Stone (spm) 66

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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
Agadeem's Awakening
Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
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
Ardyn, the Usurper
Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste.
Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.
Legendary Creature - Human Elder Noble
Ardyn, the Usurper (fin) 89
Dawn of the Dead
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Enchantment
Dawn of the Dead (tor) 59
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
Entreat the Dead
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Miracle
(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sorcery
Entreat the Dead (c18) 15
Fated Return
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.
Instant
Fated Return (znc) 42
Geralf's Messenger
This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life.
Undying (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 - Zombie
Geralf's Messenger (dka) 63
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)
Legendary Creature - Cleric Zombie
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (cmm) 173
Myojin of Grim Betrayal
Myojin of Grim Betrayal enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Grim Betrayal: Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from anywhere this turn.
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Myojin of Grim Betrayal (nec) 34
Necrosavant
, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.
Creature - Zombie Giant
Necrosavant (dmr) 93
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
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183
Shadow of the Enemy
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.
Sorcery
Shadow of the Enemy (ltr) 107
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, Whispering One (jmp) 278
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
Zombie Apocalypse
Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.
Sorcery
Zombie Apocalypse (scd) 121

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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
Archfiend of Ifnir
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Ifnir (ecc) 70
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
Cabal Patriarch
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Cabal Patriarch (cmm) 140
Cavalier of Night
Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Knight Elemental
Cavalier of Night (m20) 94
Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Death Cloud
Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.
Sorcery
Death Cloud (mma) 76
Demon of Dark Schemes
Flying
When this creature enters, all other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever another creature dies, you get
(an energy counter).
, Pay
: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped.
Creature - Demon
Demon of Dark Schemes (kld) 73
Demonic Hordes
: Destroy target land.
At the beginning of your upkeep, unless you pay
, tap this creature and sacrifice a land of an opponent's choice.
Creature - Demon
Demonic Hordes (sum) 104
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (mm2) 79
Dread Cacodemon
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all creatures your opponents control, then tap all other creatures you control.
Creature - Demon
Dread Cacodemon (cma) 55
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Forced March
Destroy all creatures with mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Forced March (mmq) 136
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Greater Harvester
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a permanent.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.
Creature - Horror
Greater Harvester (dst) 44
Halo Hunter
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target Angel.
Creature - Demon
Halo Hunter (zen) 96
Helldozer
,
: Destroy target land. If that land was nonbasic, untap this creature.
Creature - Zombie Giant
Helldozer (hop) 30
Hellfire
Destroy all nonblack creatures. Hellfire deals X plus 3 damage to you, where X is the number of creatures that died this way.
Sorcery
Hellfire (leg) 105
In Garruk's Wake
Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.
Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
Invoke Despair
Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.
Sorcery
Invoke Despair (neo) 101
Kuro, Pitlord
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro unless you pay
.
Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit
Kuro, Pitlord (dvd) 44
Liege of the Pit
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Creature - Demon
Liege of the Pit (tsp) 113
Lokhust Heavy Destroyer
Flying
Enmitic Exterminator — When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Unearth
(
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Creature Artifact - Necron
Lokhust Heavy Destroyer (40k) 38
Lord of the Pit
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.
Creature - Demon
Lord of the Pit (ima) 96
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) 754
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
Midnight Banshee
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.
Creature - Spirit
Midnight Banshee (ecc) 80
Minion of Leshrac
Protection from black
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 5 damage to you unless you sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If this creature deals damage to you this way, tap it.
: Destroy target creature or land.
Creature - Demon Minion
Minion of Leshrac (ice) 150
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 (tdc) 189
Pestilence Demon
Flying
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Creature - Demon
Pestilence Demon (ddr) 56
Phage the Untouchable
When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.
Legendary Creature - Avatar Minion
Phage the Untouchable (cns) 120
Phthisis
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses life equal to its power plus its toughness.
Suspend 5—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Phthisis (afc) 105
Phyrexian Obliterator
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 105
Reaper from the Abyss
Flying
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.
Creature - Demon
Reaper from the Abyss (c14) 159
Reiver Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Creature - Demon
Reiver Demon (cma) 64
Saw in Half
Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.
Instant
Saw in Half (unf) 88
Shambling Swarm
When this creature dies, distribute three -1/-1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each -1/-1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a -1/-1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Horror
Shambling Swarm (tor) 82
Shard of the Void Dragon
Flying
Spear of the Void Dragon — Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice.
Matter Absorption — Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - C'tan
Shard of the Void Dragon (40k) 56
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (gvl) 53
Sorin Markov
+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
Sorin Markov (m12) 109
Their Name Is Death
Destroy all nonartifact creatures.
Sorcery
Their Name Is Death (40k) 62
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (soc) 120
Vengeful Pharaoh
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if this card is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put this card on top of your library.
Creature - Zombie
Vengeful Pharaoh (m12) 116
Visara the Dreadful
Flying
: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Legendary Creature - Gorgon
Visara the Dreadful (ema) 114
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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Altar of Dementia
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Demon of Death's Gate
You may pay 6 life and sacrifice three black creatures rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, trample
Creature - Demon
Demon of Death's Gate (m11) 92
Devouring Strossus
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Devouring Strossus (inv) 101

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Decorum Dissertation
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Decorum Dissertation (sos) 78
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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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
Worms of the Earth
Players can't play lands.
Lands can't enter the battlefield.
At the beginning of each upkeep, any player may sacrifice two lands of their choice or have this enchantment deal 5 damage to that player. If a player does either, destroy this enchantment.
Enchantment
Worms of the Earth (drk) 56

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Arvinox, the Mind Flail
Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Horror
Arvinox, the Mind Flail (dsc) 130
Lord of the Void
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Demon
Lord of the Void (rvr) 81
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 120

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Abhorrent Overlord
Flying
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Creature - Demon
Abhorrent Overlord (ths) 75
Army of the Damned
Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Army of the Damned (ncc) 242
Empty the Pits
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Instant
Empty the Pits (ktk) 72
Their Number Is Legion
Create X tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens, then you gain life equal to the number of artifacts you control. Exile Their Number Is Legion.
You may cast this card from your graveyard.
Sorcery
Their Number Is Legion (40k) 63

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Beseech the Mirror
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Cateran Overlord
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
,
: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 6 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Horror Mercenary
Cateran Overlord (mmq) 123
Doomsday
Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Sorcery
Doomsday (a25) 88
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Grim Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Hoarding Broodlord
Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.
Creature - Dragon
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
Vile Entomber
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Vile Entomber (fdn) 616

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