Swamp

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.)

"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.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Acererak the Archlich

Lost Mine of Phandelver

Tomb of Annihilation

Zombie

A-Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak the Archlich enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak the Archlich to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon.
Whenever Acererak the Archlich attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Mourning shifts seamlessly to celebration as she chooses her next suitor.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

"The worthy shall strive for greatness. Supremacy in life leads to supremacy in the afterlife."
—Monument inscription

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick."
—Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.

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.

Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy 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 Necromancy 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 Necromancy to it. When Necromancy 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, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

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.)

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.)

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.

"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.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Dark Ritual

"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.

True power is achieved through blood and sweat. But mostly blood.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Demonic Tutor

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

Even as humans regained the upper hand, some still willingly traded their lives for a chance at immortality.

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Sanguine Soothsayer

Sanguine Bond

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

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.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

When the task spilled over into undeath, he stopped calling it his life's work.

Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When Extraplanar Lens enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

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}.

All that remains of the Cabal are the echoes in its deepest vault. Yet those who hear the echoes feel a power undiminished by the dust of ages.

Magus of the Coffers

Liliana of the Dark Realms

Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

"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

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

The fall of the evening star never heralds a gentle dawn.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Animate Dead

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

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge

You may cast Haakon, Stromgald Scourge from your graveyard, but not from anywhere else.
As long as Haakon is on the battlefield, you may cast Knight spells from your graveyard.
When Haakon dies, you lose 2 life.

"Don't let it fool you. Many of us got our first scars from Syr Nobody."
—Syr Layne, knight of Embereth

Jousting Dummy

{3}: Jousting Dummy gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

"Our recruitment drives are bringing in fewer fresh troops every day. We need a new strategy."
—Urza, to Tawnos

Urza's Incubator

As Urza's Incubator enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

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

Blood Celebrant

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

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: 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.

"To death all must go, and so in death lies ultimate power."
—Geth, Lord of the Vault

Necrotic Ooze

As long as Necrotic Ooze is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

"Oh, don't be so dramatic. When your eyes bleed, and your brain leaks out your ears, then we'll talk about lost sanity."
—Braids, dementia summoner

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

The ritual successfully rebound her soul to her body, but not quite in the way she'd planned.

Soul-Shackled Zombie

When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. If at least one creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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.

Valgavoth whispered into Marina's ear until he was all she could hear.

Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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.

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

"A demonic pact is all fun and games until the bill comes due."
—Liliana Vess

Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

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.

"You can sign, or you can spend your life imagining what might have been yours."

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.
{B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards.
{B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

While most power is used for ordinary, everyday tasks, one shouldn't underestimate its potential for the extraordinary.

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

"This town swims with such exquisite blood. I will take every drop for my own."

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

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.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

As life returned to the bogs of Bala Ged, the vampires returned to feed upon it.

Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"The blood of the weak shall be the ink with which we scribe great Yawgmoth's glorious name."
—Stronghold architect, journal

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

"Behold! The image of the enemy and all that she has. Trust your envy, and take it."

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

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.

"What's softer than silk, stronger than steel, and quieter than thought?"
—Warlock riddle

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"No worthwhile reward is easily gained."
—Nicol Bolas

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on Font of Agonies.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from Font of Agonies: Destroy target creature.

Wear it on your dominant hand and it will follow your lead.

Prism Ring

As Prism Ring enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

In the tight-knit doun of Mistmeadow, death is less important than duty.

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
—Sitrik, birth priest

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

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.

Graveborn

Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper

The orcs believe Sek'Kuar still lives in the Karplusan Mountains, gathering his dead army, intent on revenge.

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 3/1 black and red Graveborn creature token with haste.

"Her hunger knows no limit. Left unchecked, she would feast on all of Tarkir."
—Yasova Dragonclaw

Atarka, World Render

Flying, trample
Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, it gains double strike until end of turn.

Zar Ojanen, Scion of Efrava

A-Zar Ojanen, Scion of Efrava

Domain — Whenever Zar Ojanen, Scion of Efrava becomes tapped, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with toughness less than the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Snake

Deathtouch
Whenever Aphelia attacks, you may pay {1}{B/G}. If you do, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
{4}{B}: Until end of turn, whenever one or more Gorgons and/or Snakes you control deal combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Stangg Twin

Stangg

When Stangg enters, create Stangg Twin, a legendary 3/4 red and green Human Warrior creature token. Exile that token when Stangg leaves the battlefield. Sacrifice Stangg when that token leaves the battlefield.

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