"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

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

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

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

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

A monument to long-forgotten gods, it stands as a tribute to the fleeting nature of human ways.

Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Untap target land.

Bojuka Bog

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

"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.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Petrified Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Petrified Field: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

"Our world is vast, but Thraben is its heart. The cathedral must stand even if the hinterlands are lost."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Evolving Wilds

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

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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}.

Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

"Those who fail to escape Malakir become part of the city's defense."
—Doros, expedition guide

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."

"Getting into Malakir isn't difficult. It's getting out that's the hard part."
—Doros, expedition guide

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Swamp

Forest

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}.

Hate is an everlasting wellspring from which she is eternally sustained.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

All that remains of the Cabal are the echoes in its deepest vault. Yet those who hear the echoes feel a power undiminished by the dust of ages.

Magus of the Coffers

Zombie

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever Grave Titan enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

The fall of the evening star never heralds a gentle dawn.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, 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.)

"Shoo, you little worm tails—go away! My corpses aren't your dinner!"
—Ghoulcaller Gisa

Crypt Rats

{X}: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

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

Arcane Signet

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

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

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

It is the imposing heft of a ruler's scepter, the stench of death after a victory in battle, and the mournful wail of an enemy kneeling in supplication. It is power.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

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

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Ever After

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each of those creatures is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Put Ever After on the bottom of its owner's library.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Liliana of the Dark Realms

Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem

+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}.'"

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

The muck claims a hundred living things for each meager treasure it spews forth.

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Dark Ritual

"The blood of the weak shall be the ink with which we scribe great Yawgmoth's glorious name."
—Stronghold architect, journal

Culling the Weak

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

Gix pierced his disciples' minds and savored their experiences as he took in their knowledge.

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.

"You serve Phyrexia. Your pieces would better serve Phyrexia elsewhere."
—Azax-Azog, the Demon Thane

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Linger on death's door and risk being invited in.

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.

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

Murderous Rider // Swift End

On an Adventure

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

"The bigger they are, the faster they rot."

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.

Liliana developed a fondness for the moment when roaring becomes squealing.

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

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.)

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"
—Liliana Vess

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

No matter how deep you bury it, some evil refuses to stay dead.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

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.)

Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn.
Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When Necromancy enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step.
{2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.

The Golgari maze-runner Varolz hungers to prove his fortitude in battle, and his trail of victims feeds other hungers.

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

"I think someone is stealing from my laboratory. It had better not be you!"
—Geralf, letter to Gisa

Ransack the Lab

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"They were all laughing at you after you left, you know. How will you make them pay?"

Night's Whisper

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

"Conquering your first world is the hardest, after all. My power grew as I moved from world to world, taking anything that would make the next taking easier."
—Ob Nixilis

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Demon

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 {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

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

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

If you're looking for it, it's available. The question is how much you're willing to pay.

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile target player's graveyard.
When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Once it consecrated the dead. Now it desecrates them.

Withered Wretch

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

"Best bury them right. We don't want any gruesome encores."
—Constable Trosk

Grafdigger's Cage

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Cracks in the facade of the House lead not to escape but to oblivion.

Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

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