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Commander

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Sol'kanar the Swamp King
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Sol'kanar the Swamp King (dmr) 368

Commander

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Anthem

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Cemetery Reaper
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Zombie
Cemetery Reaper (scd) 70
Lord of the Accursed
Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
,
: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.
Creature - Zombie
Lord of the Accursed (j22) 69
Paragon of Open Graves
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: Another target black creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Paragon of Open Graves (plst) M15-111

Anthem

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Counters

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Scion of the Swarm
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Scion of the Swarm (znr) 121

Counters

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Drain

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Defiant Bloodlord
Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Creature - Vampire
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Enduring Tenacity
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Epicure of Blood
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Epicure of Blood (j22) 411
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208

Drain

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Draw

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Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
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 (acr) 87
Commence the Endgame
This spell can't be countered.
Draw two cards, then amass Zombies X, where X is the number of cards in your hand. (Put X +1/+1 counters 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.)
Instant
Commence the Endgame (war) 45
Cosmos Elixir
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.
Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Dread Presence
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Nightmare
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Helm of the Ghastlord
Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Helm of the Ghastlord (shm) 166
Rogue's Gloves
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Rogue's Gloves (jmp) 479
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Sol'Kanar the Tainted
At the beginning of your end step, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Draw a card.
• Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
• Sol'Kanar deals 3 damage to up to one other target creature or planeswalker.
• Exile Sol'Kanar, then return it to the battlefield under an opponent's control.
Legendary Creature - Demon Elemental
Sol'Kanar the Tainted (dmu) 219
Well of Lost Dreams
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.
Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (ltc) 291

Draw

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Evasion

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Filth
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.
Creature - Incarnation
Filth (plst) JUD-66

Evasion

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Land

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Akoum Refuge
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Akoum Refuge (c19) 226
Bloodfell Caves
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bloodfell Caves (mom) 267
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Crumbling Necropolis
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Crumbling Necropolis (dmc) 205
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (2x2) 322
Dimir Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Dimir Guildgate (znc) 127
Dismal Backwater
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (moc) 397
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (one) 273
Izzet Boilerworks
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Izzet Boilerworks (2x2) 326
Izzet Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Izzet Guildgate (c19) 253
Jwar Isle Refuge
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jwar Isle Refuge (znc) 133
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (one) 275
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (moc) 416
Rakdos Carnarium
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Rakdos Carnarium (dmc) 226
Rakdos Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Rakdos Guildgate (c19) 267
Smoldering Marsh
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Smoldering Marsh (dmc) 234
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (one) 274
Swiftwater Cliffs
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Swiftwater Cliffs (mom) 273
Temple of Deceit
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (moc) 431
Temple of Epiphany
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Epiphany (moc) 433
Temple of Malice
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Malice (dmc) 236
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (moc) 439

Land

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Lifegain

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Bloodthirsty Aerialist
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (j22) 381
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Demon's Horn
Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Diamond Mare
As this creature enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horse
Diamond Mare (plst) M19-231
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Prism Ring
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Prism Ring (ori) 235
Staff of the Death Magus
Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Staff of the Death Magus (m15) 232

Lifegain

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Protection

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Lazotep Plating
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.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Lazotep Plating (scd) 57

Protection

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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 (dsc) 92
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
Blanket of Night
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Enchantment
Blanket of Night (vis) 52
Commander's Sphere
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244
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) 90
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Izzet Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Izzet Signet (blc) 278
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
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Nightscape Familiar
Blue spells and red spells you cast cost
less to cast.
: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Obelisk of Grixis
: Add
,
, or
.
Artifact
Obelisk of Grixis (e01) 88
Rakdos Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
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 (fdn) 257

Ramp

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Recursion

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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 (mkc) 125
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
Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152

Recursion

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Removal

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Bedevil
Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.
Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Chaos Warp
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Instant
Chaos Warp (dsc) 162
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Crosis's Charm
Choose one —
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
• Destroy target artifact.
Instant
Crosis's Charm (plst) C17-169
Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Dissolve
Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Instant
Dissolve (ima) 51
Enter the God-Eternals
Enter the God-Eternals deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain life equal to the damage dealt this way. Target player mills four cards. Amass Zombies 4. (Put four +1/+1 counters 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.)
Sorcery
Enter the God-Eternals (scd) 227
Essence Pulse
You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 39
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (dsc) 143
Plague Wind
Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Plague Wind (a25) 102
Rakdos Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Syphon Flesh
Each other player sacrifices a creature. You create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each creature sacrificed this way.
Sorcery
Syphon Flesh (scd) 110

Removal

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Theft

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Geyadrone Dihada
Protection from permanents with corruption counters on them
+1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Put a corruption counter on up to one other target creature or planeswalker.
−3: Gain control of target creature or planeswalker until end of turn. Untap it and put a corruption counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.
−7: Gain control of each permanent with a corruption counter on it.
Legendary Planeswalker - Dihada
Geyadrone Dihada (mh2) 199
Prince of Thralls
Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that opponent pays 3 life.
Creature - Demon
Prince of Thralls (ala) 182

Theft

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Tokens

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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 (scd) 68
Curse of Disturbance
Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Curse of Disturbance (scd) 74
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
Eternal Skylord
When this creature enters, amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters 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.)
Zombie tokens you control have flying.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Eternal Skylord (scd) 49
Gleaming Overseer
When this creature enters, 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.)
Zombie tokens you control have hexproof and menace.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Gleaming Overseer (scd) 229
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
Vizier of the Scorpion
When this creature enters, 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.)
Zombie tokens you control have deathtouch.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Vizier of the Scorpion (scd) 119

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