Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

Cave of Temptation

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Esper is an expansive canvas painted by precise, controlling hands.

Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Bant's hearts are as pure as its air and as bright as its skies.

Bant Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Callaphe gazed on the coastline,
certain her destiny called her
here, where the mist-shrouded rocks sang,
promising glories undreamed of."
—*The Callapheia*

Unknown Shores

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

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.

Temple of the Dragon Queen

As this land enters, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. This land enters tapped unless you revealed a Dragon card this way or you control a Dragon.
As this land enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Buried Ruin

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

Swamp

Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

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.

Barren Moor

This land 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.

Mortuary Mire

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

Snow-Covered Swamp

Path of Ancestry

This land 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.)

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Coalition Relic

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

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

Prismatic Lens

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

"Kings of Lucis... come to me!"
—Noctis Lucis Caelum

Ring of the Lucii

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Tap target nonland permanent.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

"Galuf. It's good to see you again . . . Mwa-hahahahaha!"

Evil Reawakened

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Dark Knight's Greatsword

Hero

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and is a Knight in addition to its other types.
Chaosbringer — Equip—Pay 3 life. Activate only once each turn.

The tender light of the living quickens the pulse of the dead.

Crypt Ripper

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

Blitzball

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
GOOOOAAAALLL! — {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. Activate only if an opponent was dealt combat damage by a legendary creature this turn.

"Officially, there's nothing under that bridge to hunt . . . . Unofficially, my torchers are too terrified to go there after nightfall."
—Agrus Kos

Undercity Shade

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Made strong by reckless magic. Made horrid by reckless strife.

Nakaya Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn unless any player pays {2}.

It glides through the shadows until it reaches yours.

Whispering Shade

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Liliana's Shade

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

In the ruins of Kroog, only anguish thrived.

Misery's Shadow

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
{1}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

It stalks the fens by the light of the full moon, gathering shadows as it floats among them.

Drifting Shade

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

"The forest surrounding the Vess estate became the Caligo Morass, a vast bog stalked by horrors too terrible to name."
—"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Dread Shade

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

Deepwood Legate

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control a Swamp, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Author of Shadows

When this creature enters, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Its form never rests, propelled by some undetectable gale from beyond the gloom.

Looming Shade

"Just hang in there! Someday we'll look back at these hard times and laugh."

Fight On!

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Evernight Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Undying (When this creature 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.)

The only shortcut in a bog is to the bottom.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

In life, the nantuko study nature by revering it. In death, they study nature by disemboweling it.

Nantuko Shade

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip {3}

Slithering Shade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Hellbent — This creature can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you have no cards in hand.

Strata Scythe

Imprint — When this Equipment enters, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
Equip {3}

Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Paragon of Open Graves

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
{2}{B}, {T}: Another target black creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

The warping of bodies and souls has become the heart of Yawgmoth's existence.

Yawgmoth's Edict

Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ring of Xathrid

{2}: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Ah yes, I remember that one. I turned him inside out and cast his soul into an endless nightmare a few centuries ago."
—Braids

Tattered Apparition

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

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

"The creature we fought in the western waste was doubly dangerous: mortally wounded, it rebounded and attacked again."
—Disa the Restless, journal entry

Hoar Shade

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.

While crossing the mire, Lort the Sneaky found the perfect shortcut to the end of his life.

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

The more you struggle against death, the tighter its grip becomes.

Drag to the Underworld

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Destroy target creature.

Ayara's Oathsworn

Menace
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it has fewer than four +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has exactly four +1/+1 counters on it, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Who are you to defy me? In my time, the sibsig knew their place."
—Sidisi, to Nishang

Cruel Truths

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

Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
{3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Like the sun to a flower, the adoring gaze of the tribe is sustenance to an elf. To be shunned is to wither.

Pack's Disdain

Choose a creature type. Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each permanent of the chosen type you control.

"If they move, kill them. In fact, kill one now to make sure the other understands."

Intimidation

Creatures you control have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"We realized the bog had not given up a soul but had come to claim a new one."
—Scout Ekemet, final journal

Mire Shade

{B}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

"If I die today, I will ensure my death is worthy of legend."

Alesha's Legacy

Target creature you control gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

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

Go for the Throat

"We simply cannot tolerate a petty thief among the servants. I'm afraid I'll have to let you go."
—Rog, steward of House Rillyn

Cast Down

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

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.

"I sang songs of sorrow for my lost love. Imagine my horror when, one night, they were answered."
—Milana, Orzhov prelate

Veiled Shade

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

Rimewind necromancers caught travelers in mystical blizzards then trapped their spirits in the mist of their final frozen breaths.

Chilling Shade

Flying
{S}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. ({S} can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)

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

Greed

Dragon Shadow

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.

Tireless and merciless, shades are harnessed as spies by the Dimir.

Gateway Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Forged by divine hands to wander mortal realms.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Challenge me with your strongest. I will paint my sword with their blood."

Knight of Dusk

{B}{B}: Destroy target creature blocking this creature.

Black Mage's Rod

Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0, has "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent," and is a Wizard in addition to its other types.
Equip {3}

"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.

Wizard

Circle of Power

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Create a 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent."
Wizards you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink until end of turn.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

World Map

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Even swamps need sustenance. We will give it to them, and in turn, they will sustain us."
—Ezrith, druid of the Dark Hours

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Scent of Nightshade

Reveal any number of black cards in your hand. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

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