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Commander

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Bontu the Glorified
Menace, indestructible
Bontu can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn.
, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - God
Bontu the Glorified (mp2) 20

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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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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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Drain

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (2x2) 352
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 (ths) 89
Mirkwood Bats
Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Bat
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
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 (mkc) 141
Vindictive Vampire
Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Vindictive Vampire (clu) 126
Vraan, Executioner Thane
Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Phyrexian
Vraan, Executioner Thane (one) 309

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Draw

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
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 (dmu) 84
Corrupted Conviction
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
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 (otc) 131
Eye of Vecna
When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
Legendary Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 393
God-Eternal Bontu
Menace
When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards.
When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.
Legendary Creature - Zombie God
God-Eternal Bontu (ps19) 92
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (cc2) 4
Priest of Forgotten Gods
, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add
and draw a card.
Creature - Human Cleric
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rvr) 90
Tarrian's Journal
, Sacrifice another artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
,
, Discard your hand: Transform Tarrian's Journal.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz (lci) 126Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz (lci) 126
Vampiric Rites
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (wot) 37
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (lcc) 212

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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 (cmm) 156

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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 (otc) 273
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
Leechridden Swamp
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.
Land - Swamp
Leechridden Swamp (ddr) 65
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mom) 287
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (pip) 311

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Pump

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Hand of Vecna
At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Hand of Vecna (afr) 394

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Ramp

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Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Crowded Crypt
: Add
.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on this artifact.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on this artifact. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Artifact
Crowded Crypt (mic) 17
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
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (cmm) 395

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Recursion

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Altar of Bhaal
,
, Exile a creature you control: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering (clb) 109
Blood for Bones
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Blood for Bones (m20) 89
Bloodghast
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Spirit
Bloodghast (lcc) 184
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 (plst) DDQ-55
Forsaken Miner
This creature can't block.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88
Ghost Lantern
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit (clb) 128
Gravepurge
Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card.
Instant
Gravepurge (dtk) 104
Gutterbones
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Gutterbones (rna) 76
Haunt of the Dead Marshes
When this creature enters, scry 1.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.
Creature - Elf Nightmare
Haunt of the Dead Marshes (ltr) 90
Oathsworn Vampire
This creature enters tapped.
You may cast this card from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.
Creature - Knight Vampire
Oathsworn Vampire (lcc) 204
Oversold Cemetery
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (wot) 33
Persistent Specimen
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton
Persistent Specimen (dbl) 392
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 (otp) 18
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (mkc) 138
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 (2x2) 357
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 (cmm) 195
Virtue of Persistence
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 281

Recursion

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Removal

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Attrition
, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Enchantment
Attrition (cmd) 72
Bone Splinters
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature.
Sorcery
Bone Splinters (mm3) 60
Corrupt
Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Sorcery
Corrupt (m14) 91
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 (c13) 72
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (wot) 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 (cmm) 192

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Sac Outlet

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Gollum, Patient Plotter
When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Horror Halfling
Gollum, Patient Plotter (ltr) 309

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Tokens

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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 (pths) 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
Desecrated Tomb
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (pm19) 230
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
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (plst) TSP-106
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 315
Lord Skitter, Sewer King
Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."
Legendary Creature - Rat Noble
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
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 (cc2) 3
Piper of the Swarm
Rats you control have menace.
,
: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
,
, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.
Creature - Human Warlock
Piper of the Swarm (afc) 106
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) 374

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Tutor

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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
Case of the Stashed Skeleton
When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved —
, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (mkm) 80
Diabolic Intent
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426
Insatiable Avarice
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+
— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.
Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Mausoleum Secrets
Undergrowth — Search your library for a black card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Mausoleum Secrets (grn) 75

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Tokens & Extras

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Bat
Flying
Creature Token - Bat
Bat (tmkm) 4
Harpy
Flying
Creature Token - Harpy
Harpy (tths) 6
Rat
This token can't block.
Creature Token - Rat
Rat (twoe) 7
Rat
Creature Token - Rat
Rat (totc) 8
Skeleton
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Creature Token - Skeleton
Skeleton (tclb) 8
Skeleton
Creature Token - Skeleton
Skeleton (tmkm) 5
Skeleton Pirate
Creature Token - Skeleton Pirate
Skeleton Pirate (tlci) 8
Snake
Deathtouch
Creature Token - Snake
Snake // Zombie (cc2) 9Snake // Zombie (cc2) 9
Thrull
Creature Token - Thrull
Thrull (tcmm) 18
Treasure
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact Token - Treasure
Treasure (totj) 18
Vecna
Indestructible
Legendary Creature Token - Zombie God
Vecna (tafr) 8
Zombie
Decayed (This creature can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Creature Token - Zombie
Zombie (tmid) 5
Zombie
Creature Token - Zombie
Zombie (totc) 10
Zombie Army
Creature Token - Zombie Army
Zombie Army (tcmm) 69

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