"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.

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.)

Lake of the Dead

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land 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}.

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

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.

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, 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, and that spell can't be countered.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land 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}.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

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}.

Barren Moor

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

Polluted Mire

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

Peat Bog

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it.
{T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {B}{B}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

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.

Swamp

"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 Rebirth // Malakir Mire

"Center of the Sea, Eye of the World, Shrine of Enlightenment. Seek it for answers. Seek it for healing. Seek it and return transformed."
—Scroll fragment from the ruins of Minamo

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

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

Crumbling Vestige

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Sunscorched Desert

Sandcloud Harbinger

When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{T}: Add {C}.

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

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

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.

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Animate Dead

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

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Necromancy

You may cast this spell 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 this enchantment 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 this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

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 leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature 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.)

The litany of the infernal on his flesh pulses to the beating of his dark heart.

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 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}.

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}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
{B}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

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

Crypt Rats

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

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.

"Drink this, brother. It will bring you rest."
—Liliana Vess

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

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

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact 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.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Tutor

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

Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

"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.

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, the Last Hope

Liliana, the Last Hope Emblem

Zombie

+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.
−2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies 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 this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

His verdict is always guilty. His sentence is always death.

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Eldrazi Scion

Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Grim Haruspex

Morph

"We all want to know what's going on in someone else's head. I simply open it up and look."

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

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.)

Boneyard Aberration

Reassembling Skeleton

"If none of the bones are original, is it even the same skele—aaagh!"
—Mort the Philosopher, last words

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Summoning it is easy. Controlling it is another matter.

Bloodghast

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

"Jade-touched, wisteria-crowned, with gifts of gold and the Harvest's blessing, return this honored one to us as sibsig."
—Priests' chant

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

"Down here, things don't stay dead."
—Lavinia

Gutterbones

This creature enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.

Nether Traitor

Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"Death is merely another foe the Mardu will overcome."

Bloodsoaked Champion

This creature can't block.
Raid — {1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if you attacked this turn.

"My conquistadors are never slain, merely laid to rest."
—Queen Miralda the Pious

Oathsworn Vampire

This creature enters tapped.
You may cast this card from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

Vampire

Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage

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Bloodline Keeper

Flying
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
{B}: Transform this creature. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.

Lord of Lineage

Flying
Other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+2.
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.

Guul Draz Overseer

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, other creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. If that land is a Swamp, those creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn instead.

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.

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 greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

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.)

"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.

"I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them."
—Volrath

Extinction

Destroy all creatures of the creature type of your choice.

"I have schemed too long to be supplanted by dead gods. If I cannot have this world, no one can."

Pestilence Demon

Flying
{B}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Caged Sun

As this artifact 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.

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

Faerie Rogue

Bitterblossom

In Lorwyn's brief evenings, the sun pauses at the horizon long enough for a certain species of violet to bloom with the fragrance of mischief.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

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.

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