Swamp

"Let your heels point you home."
—Ancient blessing

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

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}.

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.

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.)

"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Barren Moor

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

The Planar Bridge opened over the Chamber of the Guildpact, reducing the symbol of Ravnica's endurance to rubble.

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

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.

Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

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

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Centuries ago, Shizo was a verdant field of wildflowers. After 891 samurai died in a single battle on its grasses, it became a haunted moor.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

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.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Peat Bog

This land enters tapped with two depletion counters on it.
{T}, Remove a depletion counter from this land: Add {B}{B}. If there are no depletion counters on this land, sacrifice it.

Crystal Vein

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {C}{C}.

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.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

Lake of the Dead

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

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

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara 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.

It *wants* to remain a mystery, banishing the curious in favor of less inquisitive company.

Cloudstone Curio

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

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: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

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.

Animate Dead

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

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 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.)

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

Kokusho, the Evening Star

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

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature 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.)

Necromancy

You may cast this spell 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 this enchantment 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 this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Minion Reflector

Copy

To crack a mirror is to provide an opening for the reflection to escape.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent."

"Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain his madness."
—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast

Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

"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.

Doomsday

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

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.

Cruel Bargain

Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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.)

Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

"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 wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Tutor

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

"Evil wears many faces. Keep your windows closed at night, or it might wear yours."
—Sultai warning

Qarsi Revenant

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew — {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Dark Ritual

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

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

Blood Celebrant

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

"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

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 to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

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

Font of Agonies

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

The Sibsig Ceremony

Zombie Druid

"Once flesh, now gold and jade. Once dead, now alive again. Once respected, now honored beyond imagination."

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever a creature you control enters, if you cast it, destroy that creature, then create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

"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.)

"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.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

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}.

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

Necrotic Ooze

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

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.

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}.'"

Lazlo was going to find the jerks who stabbed him in the back and stab them in their fronts.

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

"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.

"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.

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
{3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Denied the peace of the Blessed Sleep, geists lash out at the living, and the cycle of anger and unrest continues unbroken.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Mox Opal

Quicksilver Lapidary

The suns of Mirrodin have shone upon perfection only once.

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Grim Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{4}: Untap this artifact.

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

Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Where it treads, plants wither. Where it breathes, poison spreads.

Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes."
—Kerrick, sleeper agent

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Akul didn't know what lay inside Tarnation's great vault, but the mystery fueled his obsession.

Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+ {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

"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.

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

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