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.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

When the aven scouts located the tower in Esper, the Knights of the Reliquary set off on a righteous crusade to recover their lost treasures.

Reliquary Tower

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

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.

The seat of Belzenlok's power, the Stronghold serves as the gathering place for the Cabal as their dark influence spreads from Urborg.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Volrath's Stronghold

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

"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.

Lake of the Dead

If Lake of the Dead would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Bojuka Bog

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

"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}.

"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

For a bittersweet moment, Jace believed he could still save his love. A moment was all Vraska needed. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she whispered.

Phyrexian Arena

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

"What is mana but possibility, an idea not yet given form?"
—Jhoira, master artificer

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

"Eye of twilight, give us sight.
Take our offer, give us might.
Make our power tears of night."

Dark Ritual

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.

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}.

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.)

Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"I welcome the use of even the foulest magic if it will rid us of the monstrosities that plague our world."
—Munda, ambush leader

Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

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

Go for the Throat

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.

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.)

Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"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.

"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.)

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

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.

A grave is the safest place to store ill-gotten treasures.

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

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.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block.
Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Bloodhusk Ritualist

Multikicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
When Bloodhusk Ritualist enters, target opponent discards a card for each time it was kicked.

"Flee all you like. The further you run the more firmly I feel your heartbeat."

Bloodtracker

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodtracker.
When Bloodtracker leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

As they fought the Eldrazi, many vampires learned to live among humans. Others were unable to make the adjustment.

Vampire Nighthawk

Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

Vampire

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, create a black Vampire creature token. Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness.

Malakir Bloodwitch

Flying, protection from white
When Malakir Bloodwitch enters, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Eldrazi Spawn

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

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.

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

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.

It bends not light but mana, aligning its chaotic currents into the sharp angles necessary for the mystic's purposes.

Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

It started as a mere drop of water. The Magic Mirror crystallized it into much more.

Arcane Signet

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

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Hedron Archive: Draw two cards.

"The perfection of the lotus reminds me of my hopes for this world . . . and my failures. I will not rest until I've atoned for them."
—Karn

Gilded Lotus

"I use maps to find out where explorers have already been. Then I go the other way."
—Javad Nasrin, Ondu relic hunter

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"It is said Chimil never sees the same lands twice. So too must we expand our horizons."

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Anyone can snap her fingers and yank a soul. I prefer to kill creatively."
—Braids, dementia summoner

Ghastly Demise

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

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.

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Sanguine Bond

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

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

"I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?"
—Vraska

Night's Whisper

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

"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.

Ancient Craving

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes."
—Kerrick, sleeper agent

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

"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.

Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card.
−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

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}.'"

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Zombie

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

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Demonic Embrace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.
You may cast Demonic Embrace from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Egon ages backward, his wisdom soured by youthful spite.

Egon, God of Death

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile two cards from your graveyard. If you can't, sacrifice Egon and draw a card.

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