Virtue of Persistence

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Locthwain Scorn

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

Grafted Exoskeleton

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever Grafted Exoskeleton becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent.
Equip {2}

Court of Locthwain

When Court of Locthwain enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it. If you're the monarch, until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among cards exiled with Court of Locthwain without paying its mana cost.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Bonepicker Skirge

Flying
Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, Bonepicker Skirge has deathtouch and lifelink.

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

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.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Phage the Untouchable

When Phage the Untouchable enters the battlefield, 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.

Sheoldred's Headcleaver

Menace
Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters.)

Sol Ring

Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying
Drain Life — When Shard of the Nightbringer enters the battlefield, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker.

Lethal Scheme

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {3}

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Vraska's Fall

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker and gets a poison counter.

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} 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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your precombat 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 has every creature type.)

Westvale Abbey

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform Westvale Abbey, then untap it.

Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

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.

Contagion Engine

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Compleated ({B/P} can be paid with {B} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. Proliferate.
−2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities.
−9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

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 '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

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.

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Caress of Phyrexia

Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Dark Ritual

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Sword of Truth and Justice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Equip {2}

Phyresis Outbreak

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Then each creature your opponents control gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each poison counter its controller has.

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip {2}

Kaldra Compleat

Living weapon
Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, trample, indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature."
Equip {7}

Glistening Oil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When Glistening Oil is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Glistening Oil to its owner's hand.

Decimator Web

{4}, {T}: Target opponent loses 2 life, gets a poison counter, then mills six cards.

Geth's Summons

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Corrupted — For each opponent who has three or more poison counters as you cast this spell, put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Bilious Skulldweller

Deathtouch
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Go for the Throat

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

Anoint with Affliction

Exile target creature if it has mana value 3 or less.
Corrupted — Exile that creature instead if its controller has three or more poison counters.

Necrogen Communion

Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has toxic 2. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get two poison counters.)
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Swamp

Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Corpse Cur

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When Corpse Cur enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card with infect from your graveyard to your hand.

Plague Stinger

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Scheming Aspirant

Whenever you proliferate, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Infectious Inquiry

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Vat Emergence

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Core Prowler

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When Core Prowler dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Hand of the Praetors

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Other creatures you control with infect get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell with infect, target player gets a poison counter.

Reaper of Sheoldred

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever a source deals damage to Reaper of Sheoldred, that source's controller gets a poison counter.

Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When Ichor Rats enters the battlefield, each player gets a poison counter.

Phyrexian Crusader

First strike, protection from red and from white
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Akroma's Memorial

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

Kinzu of the Bleak Coven

Flying
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life and exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and has toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Glistening Sphere

Glistening Sphere enters the battlefield tapped.
When Glistening Sphere enters the battlefield, proliferate.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Corrupted — {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
{T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
{T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
{5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress

Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{3}{B}, {T}: Put a shadow counter on target creature. For as long as that creature has a shadow counter on it, it's a Wraith in addition to its other types. (A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{B}: Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon gains haste until end of turn.
{B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

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.

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Necroskitter

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, you may return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: 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.

Grafted Butcher

When Grafted Butcher enters the battlefield, Phyrexians you control gain menace until end of turn.
Other Phyrexians you control get +1/+1.
{3}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Return Grafted Butcher from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Blightbelly Rat dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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