When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Fetid Pools enters the battlefield tapped.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Swamp

Island

"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.

"When gods become apathetic, the people will worship anyone who answers their pleas."
—Kiora

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Witch's Cottage

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

Restless Reef

Restless Reef enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, Restless Reef becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Reef attacks, target player mills four cards.

"Some see a coastal disaster. I see a fully-stocked seagraf."
—Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Nephalia Drownyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

The Invasion Tree's branches snaked through the streets of Otawara, turning Kamigawa's soaring city into a clouded nightmare.

Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Jwar Isle Refuge

Jwar Isle Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Jwar Isle Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield tapped.
When Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {U}{B}.

Tainted Isle

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

Murky Otarian tides hide the forgotten treacheries of the Phyrexian war.

Darkwater Catacombs

"Long after the land has given up the last of its secrets, there will still be mysteries in the depths of the sea."
—Kiora

Submerged Boneyard

Submerged Boneyard enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Only death breeds in stagnant water.
—Urborg saying

Salt Marsh

Salt Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

"The wilds are unpredictable. Rivers change course, trees shuffle and bend, rocks split and scurry. But mark my words, traveler—the main thing that'll change out there is *you*."
—Sturwynn, Boundary Lands ranger

Evolving Wilds

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

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield 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.

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

"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.

Cemetery Reaper

Zombie

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Though its mind has long since rotted away, it wields a sword with deadly skill.

Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Liliana's Mastery

"There are so many of them. It seems they've just been waiting for someone to serve."

Zombies you control get +1/+1.
When Liliana's Mastery enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

The purple banner of the House of Vess is a symbol of death wherever it's flown.

Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash
When Liliana's Standard Bearer enters the battlefield, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Noosegraf Mob

Noosegraf Mob enters the battlefield with five +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell, remove a +1/+1 counter from Noosegraf Mob. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"To see past the veil of death, cross it."
—*The Red Book of Mezdrithalik*

Undead Augur

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Undead Alchemist

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player mills that many cards.
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their library, exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Graf Harvest

Zombies you control have menace. (They can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{3}{B}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Army of the Damned

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Liliana's Reaver

Deathtouch
Whenever Liliana's Reaver deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Grave Defiler

When Grave Defiler enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Zombie cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Grave Defiler.

"My earliest work escapes me."
—Stitcher Geralf

Forgotten Creation

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

An emblem of a secret guild, the Dimir insignia is seen only by its own members—and the doomed.

Dimir Signet

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

Arcane Signet

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

Fellwar Stone

"Wear this, and take your place among the shadows—wise, lethal, and unseen."
—Ivrelya, Dimir spymaster

Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice Dimir Locket: Draw two cards.

"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.

"Now rip your partner from the grave, and form an undead killing wave!"

Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
+ {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"There will come a day so dark you will pray for death. On that day your prayers will be answered."
—Minaldra, the Vizag Atum

Zombie Apocalypse

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

"Groundwater's tainted here. Best push on before our canteens run out."
—Pioneer journal of Big Ralph

Soured Springs

Soured Springs enters the battlefield tapped.
When Soured Springs enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Midnight Reaper deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

The Curse of Wandering leaves only hatred.

Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
{1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

"On vile wings and bloody wind, the swarm will rise."
—Skyclave inscription

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

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.)

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

Fleshbag Marauder

When Fleshbag Marauder enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.

Back for Seconds

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was bargained, you may put one of those cards with mana value 4 or less onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.

"Ludevic's laboratory is a veritable wonderland. I have never felt so inspired."
—Stitcher Geralf

Prized Amalgam

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, return Prized Amalgam from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped at the beginning of the next end step.

Ghouls' Night Out

For each player, choose a creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types and they gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

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.

It shambled from the cloud of ash and bone dust, undeterred by its own extinction.

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

The dead are lonely in the crypt and always eager for company.

Vile Entomber

Deathtouch
When Vile Entomber enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Overcharged Amalgam

Flash
Flying
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Wail of the Forgotten

Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Ringsight

The Ring // The Ring Tempts You

Frodo was able to see beneath their black wrappings. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes.

The Ring tempts you. Search your library for a card that shares a color with a legendary creature you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Lazotep Reaver

Zombie Army

Despite their many forms, the Eternals worked in chilling harmony, unburdened by instinct or emotion.

When Lazotep Reaver enters the battlefield, 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.)

"Slimefoot, I know I said I wanted to grow our repository of knowledge, but this isn't what I had in mind."

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Tormod, the Desecrator

"Life is but the precursor to a long and successful death."

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Every moving carriage is an accident waiting to happen, and the Hellspurs hate waiting.

Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

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.

Necrotic Hex

"You foolish knights pound your breastplates and vow to fight until your last breath. As if that's when it ends."
—Tormod, the Desecrator

Each player sacrifices six creatures. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Rise of the Dread Marn

Zombie Berserker

Foretell

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn.
Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Gleaming Overseer

When Gleaming Overseer enters the battlefield, 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.

He had glimpsed the truth of the Multiverse. Now if only he could remember it.

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

The Skelle raise scorn poles in conquered villages—cursed totems of wood and bone that sap survivors of physical strength and the will to fight back.

Village Rites

Dread Summons

"Did you have a nice nap?"
—Liliana Vess

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana's Devotee

Liliana inspires horror in many and fanatical admiration in a few.

Zombies you control get +1/+0.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Treasure

Deadly Dispute

"That's a pretty ring! Trade you my knife for it."

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

"Which would you like first, the insult or the injury?"

Undermine

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

"If you hear a groaning noise in the cellar, don't investigate. Don't split up. Just lock the door and barricade it."
—Emili, guard captain

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

"I prefer the big and looming to the small and skittering."
—Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Lotleth Giant

Undergrowth — When Lotleth Giant enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent for each creature card in your graveyard.

Open the Graves

It was a night like any other. It would soon become a night no one would ever forget.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Undead Butler

When Undead Butler enters the battlefield, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
When Undead Butler dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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