When the Planeswalker Angrath called dinosaurs "dragons," the name stuck in certain pirate circles.

Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Everything is flammable in the Burning Isles, even the mana itself.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

The continent of Guul Draz is a geothermal swampland reeking of heat and decay.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Canyon Slough enters tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Foreboding Ruins

As Foreboding Ruins enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters tapped.
When Temple of Malice enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Enter and indulge your darkest fantasies, for you may never pass this way again.

Rakdos Guildgate

Rakdos Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Bloodfell Caves

Bloodfell Caves enters tapped.
When Bloodfell Caves enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

"I do as I choose with what is mine. And it is all mine."
—Nicol Bolas

Cinder Barrens

Cinder Barrens enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Swamp

Mountain

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

"This is it! All the cryptoliths point here!"
—Jace Beleren

Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}: Return Drownyard Temple from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"You should have granted us an audience. Instead, you now reign over a kingdom of ruins."
—Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Gnolls make offerings to sinister forces in the shadow-drenched chasms.

Shadowblood Ridge

Sometimes safety is a place. Sometimes it's a person. Sometimes it's a tangible reminder that even in darkness, hope persists.

Arcane Signet

Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon.

Rakdos Signet

When you spend most of your time running for your life, it pays to invest in quality footwear.

Lightning Greaves

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

"There is great wisdom in rushing headlong into combat . . . if you're prepared."
—Kenjek, captain of the Thousand Swords

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

"This trinket will gain you admittance to some painfully exclusive gatherings."
—Exava, blood witch

Rakdos Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}, {T}, Sacrifice Rakdos Locket: Draw two cards.

The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.

Rakdos Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B}{R}: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

It would be unfortunate if the key fell into the wrong hands.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

"There are terrors lurking in the unseen corners of us all."
—Crovax

Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

As the infection spread, Nahiri's thoughts grew tangled. She needed to protect what she loved from Phyrexia... or maybe only Phyrexia could protect what she loved.

Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.

The chasm of years and worlds collapsed under the power of their embrace.

Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.

The first khans of the Sultai relied on the magic of the rakshasa to ensure the survival of the clan.

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

In a wave of spells called the Cursemute, Avacyn cleansed the world with divine fire.

Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Kargan tribal lands rarely have issues with goblin raids. Coincidentally, they also rarely have issues keeping their dragons fed.

Tormenting Voice

Demonlord Belzenlok

Flying, trample
When Demonlord Belzenlok enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card, then put that card into your hand. If the card's mana value is 4 or greater, repeat this process. Demonlord Belzenlok deals 1 damage to you for each card put into your hand this way.

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast this spell unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

"Defy me and I will burn the flesh from your bones. Betray me and I will steal the breath from your lungs."

Kaervek, the Spiteful

"If that brain can't figure out the secret of the serum, then add more brains."
—Rhmir, Hand of the Augur

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Falkenrath Gorger

Each Vampire creature card you own that isn't on the battlefield has madness. The madness cost is equal to its mana cost. (If you discard a card with madness, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Displays of Voldaren bloodlust are not restricted to glamorous banquets and lavish parties.

Olivia's Dragoon

Discard a card: Olivia's Dragoon gains flying until end of turn.

"As we muster for war, I have little patience for lethargy or recalcitrance."

Olivia's Bloodsworn

Flying
Olivia's Bloodsworn can't block.
{R}: Target Vampire gains haste until end of turn.

"Each day there are new reports of homes along Getander Pass and Hofsaddel falling to vampires of a more savage nature. I've even heard tell that Anje Falkenrath has returned. Please send whatever help you can."
—Sterin Gorn, letter to Thalia

Falkenrath Reaver

Insolent Neonate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Discard a card, Sacrifice Insolent Neonate: Draw a card.

Not every job in the goblin army is glamorous. Actually, *no* job in the goblin army is glamorous.

Ember Hauler

{1}, Sacrifice Ember Hauler: It deals 2 damage to any target.

Demon

Skirsdag High Priest

"Thraben's pleas fall on deaf ears. Ours do not."

Morbid — {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

"Allow zealous flames to light your path and the glory you seek will be revealed."
—Hazoret, god of zeal

Flameblade Adept

Menace
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, Flameblade Adept gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Bloodhall Priest

Whenever Bloodhall Priest enters or attacks, if you have no cards in hand, Bloodhall Priest deals 2 damage to any target.
Madness {1}{B}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

"As she reached the pinnacle, lightning flashed and her eyes blazed with newfound power."
—*Legend of the Gilded Knights*

Stormfist Crusader

Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Crypt Champion

Double strike
When Crypt Champion enters, each player puts a creature card with mana value 3 or less from their graveyard onto the battlefield.
When Crypt Champion enters, sacrifice it unless {R} was spent to cast it.

"If there were such a thing as a soul, I think it would be behind the gallbladder but above the kidneys."

Rakdos Shred-Freak

Devil-blades and dripping blood make music Rakdos never tires of hearing.

Rakdos Cackler

Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Flying, haste
Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat.

Rakdos, the Showstopper

Flying, trample
When Rakdos, the Showstopper enters, flip a coin for each creature that isn't a Demon, Devil, or Imp. Destroy each creature whose coin comes up tails.

Rakdos Ringleader

First strike
Whenever Rakdos Ringleader deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random.
{B}: Regenerate Rakdos Ringleader.

Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos the Defiler attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up.
Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents they control, rounded up.

Rakdos Augermage

First strike
{T}: Reveal your hand and discard a card of target opponent's choice. Then that player reveals their hand and discards a card of your choice. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ever wonder why you never see an old Rakdos cultist?

Rakdos Firewheeler

When Rakdos Firewheeler enters, it deals 2 damage to target opponent and 2 damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Rakdos rioters paint their faces to resemble the drakes' bloodied muzzles.

Rakdos Drake

Flying
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Rakdos Pit Dragon

{R}{R}: Rakdos Pit Dragon gains flying until end of turn.
{R}: Rakdos Pit Dragon gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Hellbent — Rakdos Pit Dragon has double strike as long as you have no cards in hand.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.

Dreadbore

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

It's not just the wind. It's not all in your head. And it's *definitely* something to worry about.

Bump in the Night

Target opponent loses 3 life.
Flashback {5}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch

First strike, haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste.

Murderous Redcap

When Murderous Redcap enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Persist (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.)

Rakdos Guildmage

Goblin

({B/R} can be paid with either {B} or {R}.)
{3}{B}, Discard a card: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{R}: Create a 2/1 red Goblin creature token with haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

"Jarad fancies himself king of the undercity, but he's merely king of rot."

Necropolis Regent

Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Hellhole Flailer

Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
{2}{B}{R}, Sacrifice Hellhole Flailer: Hellhole Flailer deals damage equal to its power to target player or planeswalker.

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

Whenever Valgavoth sheds his old form, a Harrowing courses through the House like a malevolent wave, spawning new horrors and inciting its inhabitants to frenzy.

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

The Kargan tribes share legends of the victory their ancestors won over the Akoum Skyclave, and its horrendous cost.

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

"The louder their performance, the quieter we become in comparison. They are the perfect distractions, for only fools ignore the Rakdos."
—Lazav

Rakdos Trumpeter

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{3}{R}: Rakdos Trumpeter gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Caution: Audience in front row may have throats ripped out.

Rakdos Headliner

Haste
Echo—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

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