Swamp

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.

Bojuka Bog

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

"Ever been caught out in a storm like that? Think of it like drowning, but all the water is knives."
—Annie Flash

Sandstorm Verge

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

History is not delicately woven. It is hammered with fire.

Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Desert deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Orc Army

Barad-dûr

"Those who pass the gates of Barad-dûr do not return."
—Gandalf

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Memorial to Folly

Memorial to Folly enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Memorial to Folly: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

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}.

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.

No matter how deep Urza delved, he couldn't escape his regrets.

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Urza's Cave: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Its light exposes enemies and lays secrets bare.

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Buried Ruin

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

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}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

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.

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Barren Moor

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

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.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

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

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Overseer of the Damned

Zombie

Flying
When Overseer of the Damned enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch
{B}, Reveal Tetzimoc, Primal Death from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.
When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth.

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.

"The bones of allies grant wisdom. The bones of enemies grant strength. The bones of dragons grant life eternal."

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Dross Harvester

Protection from white
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.

Ogre Slumlord

"His tenement is filled with the most vile, disgusting vermin. It's infested with rats, too."
—Branko One-Ear

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

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.

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.)

"Victory in the pits is almost as rewarding as the methods I use to achieve it."

Sadistic Hypnotist

Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Sorin has gathered grudges for centuries, patiently awaiting the day he can exact the perfect vengeance.

Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

The Crimson Throne may be empty, but its coffers are full.

Blood Tithe

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"Their blood is the nectar that nourishes the Cabal."
—Phage the Untouchable

Blood Celebrant

{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Leshrac's Sigil

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you may pay {B}{B}. If you do, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.
{B}{B}: Return Leshrac's Sigil to its owner's hand.

Pontiff of Blight

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.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Nowhere to Run

Flash
When Nowhere to Run enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Cauldron of Souls

{T}: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Elgin's final mistake was assuming an intruder would come through the door, and not up the sheer, smooth, six-story wall.

Stab

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Dark Ritual

Glaring Spotlight

Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
{3}, Sacrifice Glaring Spotlight: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Abzan ancestors died to protect their Houses, and they protect them still.

Retribution of the Ancients

{B}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Each spindrell is the lingering consciousness of a survivor consumed by cellarspawn—a ragged, drifting remnant pulsing with constant psychic agony.

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Tooth of Chiss-Goria

Flash
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
{T}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Merrows skulk the silty bogs around the Wanderbrine, their very thoughts stained with evil.

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Mogis's Marauder

When Mogis's Marauder enters, up to X target creatures each gain intimidate and haste until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it. Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

"He is judge, jury, and executioner because he killed them all."
—Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

"They'll soon become accustomed to wearing skin that is not their own."
—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Liquimetal Coating

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

With five lenses on its "head," it sees the world in a range of colors beyond ordinary perception.

Scuttlemutt

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Scale of Chiss-Goria

Flash
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
{T}: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Abyssal Harvester

Copy

"Till the soil, spare no soul. / Neath the darkness, nightmares grow."
—Children's nursery rhyme

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

"Weaponized jewelry has a long and respected history."
—Ervos Trax

Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

As the horrors closed in on Gerrard, Squee trembled and clutched his toy for comfort. He didn't know where it came from or why it was so warm, but he was glad he'd kept it near.

Squee's Toy

{T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{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.)

Most mirrors show your reflection. Others show your potential.

Mirage Mirror

{2}: Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

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."

Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on Bandit's Haul. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from Bandit's Haul: 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.

Barbed Servitor

Indestructible
When Barbed Servitor enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
Whenever Barbed Servitor deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Whenever Barbed Servitor is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

The Great Mending that healed the Multiverse also unraveled the threads of Nicol Bolas's power.

Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

When Glarb ordered the egg stolen, the Great Maha communicated its anger in a universal language.

Fell

"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.

Massacre Wurm

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

Thrilling Encore

Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

"A sharp conscience is the weapon of the soul."
—Hanna, *Weatherlight* navigator

Dingus Staff

Whenever a creature dies, Dingus Staff deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

Whether inspired by fear or by honor, all loyalty lends might.

Helm of Chatzuk

{1}, {T}: Target creature gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

"Before I fall, I will taste the blood of Sarulf himself!"

Scorn-Blade Berserker

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

It protects her from the ravages of Phyrexia and the savages of Rath.

Belbe's Armor

{X}, {T}: Target creature gets -X/+X until end of turn.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted deals 1 damage to that player.
−2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

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.

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