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.

Barren Moor

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

Ghost Quarter

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

Mortuary Mire

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

Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Swamp

It was a profitable scheme, at least until the dead began to object.

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Nighthowler and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

The necromancer's touch strips away memory and loyalty, and only strength and malice remain.

Grim Return

Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

"All dead move to the hollow rhythm of necromancy."
—Savra

Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Boneyard Aberration

Reassembling Skeleton

"They may show up with the wrong thigh bone or mandible, but they always show up."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

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

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

The Monarch

Thorn of the Black Rose

If bribery and intimidation fail, Marchesa turns to her favorite form of persuasion.

Deathtouch
When Thorn of the Black Rose enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.

As they fought the Eldrazi, many vampires learned to live among humans. Others were unable to make the adjustment.

Vampire Nighthawk

"You may enter the city—once the toll is paid."

Gatekeeper of Malakir

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.)
When Gatekeeper of Malakir enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

"Ah, this is a nice life. I can see why you were so desperate to keep it."

Dark Impostor

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.
Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

Zombie

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.

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

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.)

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

"Give of yourself, for compleation awaits the cleansed."
—Nokar, priest of Sheoldred

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

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.

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.

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.)

"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.

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 of your library.)

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.

Demon

Archfiend's Vessel

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
When Archfiend's Vessel enters the battlefield, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

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

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

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

"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.

Fain, the Broker

Treasure

Inkling

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
{T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token.
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
{3}{B}: Untap Fain, the Broker.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Taborax's cultists are the latest in a long history of beings who have desired to see Zendikar torn to pieces.

Demon's Disciple

When Demon's Disciple enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.

Dusk Mangler

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life.
When Dusk Mangler enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a creature, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

Most see the Mad Mage as a deranged menace, but you recognize the genius behind his paranoia.

Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

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

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Each player who can't discards a card.

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.

Herala sighed as the creature pulled itself from the smoldering pit, the ground boiling beneath its still-glowing feet. She had just plowed that field.

Meteor Golem

When Meteor Golem enters the battlefield, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

"One day, the great serpent will rejoin us on Skemfar, and those who've wronged us will taste of our venom."

Elderfang Disciple

When Elderfang Disciple enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Linger on death's door and risk being invited in.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Stinkweed Imp

Flying
Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

It would be unfortunate if the key fell into the wrong hands.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Caught between life and death, between land and sea, between thought and oblivion.

Mire Triton

Deathtouch
When Mire Triton enters the battlefield, mill two cards and you gain 2 life.

On Innistrad, one person's windfall usually starts with another person lying face down in the mud.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

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

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.

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

Arcane Signet

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

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Embodiment of Agonies

Flying, deathtouch
Embodiment of Agonies enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana cost among nonland cards in your graveyard. (For example, {2}{B} and {1}{B}{B} are different mana costs.)

Harpy

Abhorrent Overlord

Flying
When Abhorrent Overlord enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

Mausoleum Secrets

Undergrowth — Search your library for a black card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"Resist if you must. It makes no difference. As with Mirrodin, your world will bow to Phyrexia."
—Sheoldred

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Corpse Connoisseur

When Corpse Connoisseur enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
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.)

"How about the power of silent flight? Does that suit your needs, cutthroat?"
—Rivalen Blackhand, proprietor of Sorcerous Sundries

Cloak of the Bat

Equipped creature has flying and haste.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Once they reached Orazca, the Legion's explorers ransacked tombs and temples, hunting for the Immortal Sun.

Dusk Legion Zealot

When Dusk Legion Zealot enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

The greatest heroes are the first to stand, the first to take up arms, and the first to meet the enemy.

Chariot of Victory

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.
Equip {1}

The sharp memory of Daxos's death stabbed into Elspeth's soul.

Agonizing Remorse

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it or a card from their graveyard. Exile that card. You lose 1 life.

Woe Strider

Goat

When Woe Strider enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Woe Strider escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Bear the weight of so many spirits and you'll surrender civility and restraint to savagery and instinct.

Haunted Cloak

Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

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."

Her triumph came not from escaping her death, but in claiming her independence.

Liliana's Triumph

Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

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.

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters the battlefield, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Isareth the Awakener

Deathtouch
Whenever Isareth the Awakener attacks, you may pay {X}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Saproling

Slimefoot, the Stowaway

As Jhoira restored the *Weatherlight*, a mushroom growing in its hold unexpectedly became her first crew member.

Whenever a Saproling you control dies, Slimefoot deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
{4}: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

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