Swamp

"There are terrors lurking in the unseen corners of us all."
—Crovax

Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Sword of the Meek

Equipped creature gets +1/+2.
Equip {2}
Whenever a 1/1 creature enters under your control, you may return Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to the battlefield, then attach it to that creature.

All the junk, refuse, and offal of the Krark Clan is diligently collected, melted down, and made into more junk, refuse, and offal.

Krark-Clan Ironworks

"How can we wage war against ourselves? What happens when the kami of our very souls rise against us? I answer simply: We cannot. We die. There can be no victory in this war."
—Sensei Hisoka, letter to Lord Konda

Night of Souls' Betrayal

There are those who draw false comparisons between the tech-magi of the Adeptus Mechanicus and the xenotechnologists of the necron race. There can be no mercy for such heretics.

Cryptek

{1}{B}, {T}: Choose another target artifact creature you control. When that creature dies this turn, return it to the battlefield tapped under your control.

They skitter out of the mists to consume fresh kill before Mephidross has a chance to corrode it away.

Dross Scorpion

Whenever Dross Scorpion or another artifact creature dies, you may untap target artifact.

Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it.
Equip {4}

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

"Defy me and I will burn the flesh from your bones. Betray me and I will steal the breath from your lungs."

Kaervek, the Spiteful

"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

Metalwork Colossus

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total mana value of noncreature artifacts you control.
Sacrifice two artifacts: Return Metalwork Colossus from your graveyard to your hand.

"The skirges screech along with the bone saw. It makes a terrible racket, but they seem to enjoy it."
—Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor

Skirge Familiar

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.

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.

"'Davvol, blast those elves.' 'Davvol, transport those troops.' No one cares that today is my birthday."

Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add {B}.

Tormod, the Desecrator

Zombie

"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.)

"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.

Most clocks measure time, but a few measure everything.

Clock of Omens

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Skorpekh Lord

Menace
Command Protocols — Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Chronomancer

Flying
Atomic Transmutation — {1}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Draw a card.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

"Immortality is not quite the same as invulnerability, but it is close enough."

Illuminor Szeras

Secrets of the Soul — {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Automaton inspectors ensure that the Consulate's stringent standards for mass production are upheld.

Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Scrap Trawler

Whenever Scrap Trawler or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Bound to a cryptek, the cryptothrall exists for one reason: to defend its master to the death.

Cryptothrall

Protector — Other artifact creatures you control have hexproof.

"When the Silent King saw what had been done, he knew at last the true nature of the C'tan, and the doom they had wrought in his name."
—*The Book of Mournful Night*

Their Name Is Death

Ish Sah, den of the warlord Geth, commander of countless nim.

Vault of Whispers

Royal Warden

Necron Warrior

Phalanx Commander — When Royal Warden enters, create two tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.
Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

It burns with the very fire that doomed Szarekh's species, and channels it to devastate his foes.

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Szarekh, the Silent King

Flying
My Will Be Done — Whenever Szarekh, the Silent King attacks, mill three cards. You may put an artifact creature card or Vehicle card from among the cards milled this way into your hand.

Canoptek Spyder

Flying
Fabricator Claw Array — Whenever another nontoken artifact creature or Vehicle you control enters, draw a card.

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.

Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Psychomancer

Flying
Harbinger of Despair — Whenever Psychomancer or another nontoken artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Necron Deathmark

Flash
Synaptic Disintegrator — When Necron Deathmark enters, destroy up to one target creature and target player mills three cards.

Overlord of the Balemurk

Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever Overlord of the Balemurk enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mephidross gives up treasure easily . . . as long as you take its place.

Myr Retriever

When Myr Retriever dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Biotransference

Creatures you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you lose 1 life and create a 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token.

An artificer once dropped one in a vault full of coins. She has yet to find it.

Sculpting Steel

You may have Sculpting Steel enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

"Though it may take an eternity, I will see the myriad dynasties united once more."

Anrakyr the Traveller

Lord of the Pyrrhian Legions — Whenever Anrakyr the Traveller attacks, you may cast an artifact spell from your hand or graveyard by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

"Scour this world of these impudent trespassers!"
—Lord Traedrekkh of the Sekemtar Dynasty

Triarch Stalker

Targeting Relay — At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent.
Creatures attacking the last chosen player have menace.

The One Ring

A-The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

As the monster lay dying, it stared into the eyes of the human who slew it. Decades later, it has yet to break its gaze.

Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

As blood touched the empty page, it formed words that seared themselves into the wizard's mind.

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

Flying
Enmitic Exterminator — When Lokhust Heavy Destroyer enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Unearth {5}{B}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Guarded by cartographers, disdained by warlords, coveted by adventurers.

Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

"Nothing clears a battlefield like a Deathstrike missile. Wait. Is something moving out there?"
—Commander Zander At'lan, Tallarn 115th Armoured Regiment

Sautekh Immortal

Flash
Elite Troops — Sautekh Immortal enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died this turn.

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.

"Witchcraft or technology, it is blasphemous, and it must be stopped."
—Inquisitor Greyfax

Technomancer

When Technomancer enters, mill three cards, then return any number of artifact creature cards with total mana value 6 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

After five thousand years, the nightmare returned.

Portal to Phyrexia

When Portal to Phyrexia enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

"Only the deathless can truly comprehend the burden of unfailing loyalty."
—Vargard Obyron of the Sautekh Dynasty

Lychguard

Guardian Protocols — {3}{B}, Sacrifice Lychguard: Return all legendary creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on Out of the Tombs, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Wurm

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

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.

Hexmark Destroyer

Multi-threat Eliminator — Hexmark Destroyer can't be blocked except by six or more creatures.
Unearth {4}{B}{B} ({4}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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.")

"It is as if this world has been expecting our blessings."
—Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Darksteel Forge

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

"The partisans have unearthed a strange artifact. None know its origin, but it gives them hope of a life beyond."
—Elspeth's journal

Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

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}.

Imotekh the Stormlord

Phaeron — Whenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.
Grand Strategist — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.

Sliver Overlord

{3}: Search your library for a Sliver card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{3}: Gain control of target Sliver. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sacrificial rites take place before an audience of cheering cultists, each begging to be the next on stage.

Lyzolda, the Blood Witch

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Lyzolda, the Blood Witch deals 2 damage to any target if the sacrificed creature was red. Draw a card if the sacrificed creature was black.

"We all hide a little madness behind our sophistication, do we not?"

Anje Falkenrath

Haste
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
Whenever you discard a card, if it has madness, untap Anje Falkenrath.

Armix, Filigree Thrasher

Whenever Armix, Filigree Thrasher attacks, you may discard a card. When you do, target creature defending player controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control plus the number of artifact cards in your graveyard.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Born from the oldest red cedar, nursed on the sap of the tallest spruce, coronated under the mightiest pine.

Ayula, Queen Among Bears

Whenever another Bear you control enters, choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target Bear.
• Target Bear you control fights target creature you don't control.

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Flying
When Sharuum the Hegemon enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sydri, Galvanic Genius

{U}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.
{W}{B}: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Ashnod the Uncaring

Deathtouch
Whenever you activate an ability of an artifact or creature that isn't a mana ability, if one or more permanents were sacrificed to activate it, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Sacrificing an artifact for mana to activate an ability doesn't count.)

Arahbo, Roar of the World

Eminence — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if Arahbo, Roar of the World is in the command zone or on the battlefield, another target Cat you control gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
Whenever another Cat you control attacks, you may pay {1}{G}{W}. If you do, it gains trample and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is its power.

Ms. Bumbleflower

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent draws a card. Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains flying until end of turn. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, you draw two cards.

Myrkul, Lord of Bones

Copy

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Myrkul, Lord of Bones has indestructible.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's an enchantment and loses all other card types.

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