Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince

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Human Cleric

Westvale Abbey

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.

With Griselbrand gone, the Skirsdag eagerly awaited another demon to claim their devotion. Ormendahl did not make them wait long.

Ormendahl, Profane Prince

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

The elf was disgusted by the bramble before him when the skies darkened, then he stepped closer to observe the wild beauty.

Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Nurturing Peatland

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

The first sight most students see are the Torches of Enlightenment, welcoming them to the beginning of their great adventure.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

"They never found the body of young Josu, or that of his murderous sister."
—"The Fall of the House of Vess"

Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"The sylex blast marked not only the end of the war, but the end of Dominaria as most knew it."
—*The Antiquities War*

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Swamp

Forest

Gilt-Leaf Alchemist

"A hamster sumo wrestler? Snot that's also a crime lord? An alien newt assassin? April, how am I supposed to edit all of this footage into something watchable, much less believable?"
—Irma Langenstein

Evolving Wilds

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

Some say this snarl—the most turbulent, changeable location in all of Arcavios—is the birthplace of the five elder dragons. There are also whispers it's where they are destined to die.

Terramorphic Expanse

Command Tower

Tower Winder

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

Long-standing disagreements between the Sultai and Abzan about how to honor their dead have led to rare but fierce skirmishes.

Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Enter those who are starving and sick. You are welcome among the Swarm when the rest of Ravnica rejects you.

Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Hissing Quagmire

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{1}{B}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/2 black and green Elemental creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.

Svogthos, the Restless Tomb

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{B}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard." It's still a land.

"I love what they've done with the place."
—Liliana Vess

Grim Backwoods

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Barren Moor

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

Polluted Mire

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Slippery Karst

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

The stench of rotting meat lures flies, goblins, and young raptors.

Foul Orchard

"Is this the grave of a god? A tunnel carved by the Cosmos Serpent? It matters not. It is no place for us."
—Iskene, Kannah storyteller

Woodland Chasm

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
This land enters tapped.

Food

Gingerbread Cabin

({T}: Add {G}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Forests.
When this land enters untapped, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

"We are free. It is our duty to live well."

Bloodchief's Thirst

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.

"It is impious to admit, but I do enjoy pirate blood. Something in the salty tang of it, the spice of rebellion."

Arterial Flow

Each opponent discards two cards. If you control a Vampire, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

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.

Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

The Ozolith's appearance spawned a new era of wild mutation on Ikoria. Some creatures hunted different prey, lived in new habitats, and thrived on mutation itself.

Essence Symbiote

Whenever a creature you control mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature and you gain 2 life.

Some say the knowledge lost during the Ritual of Rebuking is returned through the well's waters.

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

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.)

Under Drana's leadership, vampires are finding new strength in unity.

Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

The mystic bond between spellcasters and the land is just as vulnerable to attack as the casters themselves.

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Sylvan Messenger

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Elf cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

"The more our numbers grow, the more I gain hope that Volrath and his cursed stronghold will one day fall."
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Cliffhaven Kitesail

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature has flying.
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"Any dream is a robust harvest. Still, I prefer the timeworn dreams, heavy with import, that haunt the obsessive mind."

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Cracks in the facade of the House lead not to escape but to oblivion.

Leyline of the Void

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Depending on your point of view, the seal represents a proud guardian of the natural cycle or one who has sold her soul to darkness for eternal life.

Golgari Signet

"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.

"The continual rise of the downtrodden is as inevitable as vines usurping a forest."
—Vraska

Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Eumidians live to change and be changed, ever increasing the complexity of the Edge. Each new world is a new perspective.

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

All seeds share a common bond, calling to each other across infinity.

Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

"The land grows only where the kami will it."
—Dosan the Falling Leaf

Kodama's Reach

"Yo! It's the green machine! / Gonna rock the town without bein' seen! / Have you ever seen a turtle get doooown?"

Harmonize

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Assassin

Vraska, Swarm's Eminence

Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a player or planeswalker, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
−2: Create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and "Whenever this token deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker."

The Great Henge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
{T}: Add {G}{G}. You gain 2 life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card.

Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

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.

Palace Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons.
• Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"This world was once so much more than the confines of Naktamun."

Ramunap Excavator

He digs his roots into barren ground, searching for old seeds that never had the chance to sprout.

Tilling Treefolk

When this creature enters, you may return up to two target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

"What drives the star arches to appear, and what causes them to sometimes disappear? I doubt even the Dawning Archaic knows."
—Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Sol Ring

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Thrull

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"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

"Urborg's magic is strong. Did Urza send you to protect us or to protect against us?"
—Urborg witch, to Barrin

Bog Initiate

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

Blood Celebrant

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

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.

Aerie Ouphes

Sacrifice this creature: It deals damage equal to its power to target creature with flying.
Persist (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.)

"Think of them not as failures but as works in progress."
—Volrath

Mortuary

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library.

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.

"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.

"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.

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.

"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 that card's mana value.

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.)

Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Acererak the Archlich

Lost Mine of Phandelver

Tomb of Annihilation

Zombie

A-Acererak the Archlich

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

"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.

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.

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