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.

"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.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

"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

Sword of the Paruns

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0.
As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2.
{3}: You may tap or untap equipped creature.
Equip {3}

"Eldrazi? Ha! Try walking through Zulaport at night with your pockets full. Now *that's* dangerous."

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

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.

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.

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

"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.

Human Soldier

Bastion of Remembrance

Lives taken are lives not easily forgotten.

When Bastion of Remembrance enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

"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

"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.

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.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, 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.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

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}.

For a bittersweet moment, Jace believed he could still save his love. A moment was all Vraska needed. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she whispered.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

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.

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.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Zombie

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever Grave Titan enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

"The second wind of ascension is Reaver, slaying the unworthy."
—*Keld Triumphant*

Plague Wind

Destroy all creatures you don't control. They can't be regenerated.

"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.

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

"There's some new darkness in the air tonight. If I were you, I'd stay home and lock the doors."
—Ferrick, village warden

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Demonic Tutor

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

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.

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 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.

"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.

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.

"I will trade life for life with the insurgents. Our resources, unlike theirs, are limitless."
—Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

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.

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.)

Pack Rat

Copy

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control.
{2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of Pack Rat.

Relentless Rats

Relentless Rats gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.
A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Wreckage from the Phyrexian Invasion provided the rats with a seemingly unlimited number of breeding grounds.

Rat Colony

Rat Colony gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control.
A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.

Ogre Slumlord

"His tenement is filled with the most vile, disgusting vermin. It's infested with rats, too."
—Branko One-Ear

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

"Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life."
—Bram Stoker, *Dracula*

Swarm of Rats

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

Piper of the Swarm

"If it has ears, it will dance to my tune."

Rats you control have menace.
{1}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Throat Slitter deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Ninjutsu {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Ink-Eyes.

Nezumi Graverobber

{1}{B}: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If no cards are in that graveyard, flip Nezumi Graverobber.

Nighteyes the Desecrator

{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator

Skullsnatcher

Ninjutsu {B} ({B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Skullsnatcher deals combat damage to a player, exile up to two target cards from that player's graveyard.

An ogre's poisonous stench is like fine Kashkaval cheese to the noses lowest to the ground.

Ratcatcher

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Rat card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Treasure

Pitiless Plunderer

"Shame to let good gold go to the grave."

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.

Golgari Thug

When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

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

Bog Initiate

"I don't have anything against Snapdax. I'm just more of a dog person."

Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Grim Haruspex

Morph

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

"My conquistadors are never slain, merely laid to rest."
—Queen Miralda the Pious

Oathsworn Vampire

Oathsworn Vampire enters tapped.
You may cast Oathsworn Vampire from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

Persistent Marshstalker

Persistent Marshstalker gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control.
Threshold — Whenever you attack with one or more Rats, if seven or more cards are in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return Persistent Marshstalker from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

"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.

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.

Dark Ritual

Poison Counter

Karumonix, the Rat King

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Other Rats you control have toxic 1.
When Karumonix enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer united three nezumi gangs when he slew their leaders in a single night. Now they call him their first lord.

All Rats have fear.
{T}, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.

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.

"Choices belong to those with the luxuries of time and distance. We have neither. I recommend we proceed with the plan to destroy all shrines of the kami."
—Lady Azami, letter to Sensei Hisoka

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

"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.

Aminatou, Veil Piercer

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Each enchantment card in your hand has miracle. Its miracle cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {4}. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Saproling

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave, Guru of Spores enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Bird

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Menace, reach
When Rendmaw, Creaking Nest enters and whenever you play a card with two or more card types, each player creates a tapped 2/2 black Bird creature token with flying. The tokens are goaded for the rest of the game. (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Aminatou, the Fateshifter

+1: Draw a card, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.
−1: Exile another target permanent you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control.
−6: Choose left or right. Each player gains control of all nonland permanents other than Aminatou, the Fateshifter controlled by the next player in the chosen direction.
Aminatou, the Fateshifter can be your commander.

Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

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