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.)

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

A monument to long-forgotten gods, it stands as a tribute to the fleeting nature of human ways.

Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Untap target land.

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 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}.

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.

Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{B}, {T}: 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}.

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}.

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.

Some worlds possess a hidden core where life's essence constantly surges.

Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Amonkhet's desiccated land thirsts for blood.

Hostile Desert

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, Exile a land card from your graveyard: This land becomes a 3/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Once a center for knowledge, Sea Gate now serves as a reminder of what was lost.

Sea Gate Wreckage

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
{2}{C}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Miren, the Moaning Well

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

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.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Petrified Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

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.

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 this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever this creature 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 this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"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}

Thornbite Staff

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature."
Whenever a Shaman creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {4}

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.

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.

Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

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

Sol Ring

Golgari Thug

When this creature 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.)

Grim Haruspex

Morph

"We all want to know what's going on in someone else's head. I simply open it up and look."

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.

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

Bog Initiate

"People love to follow fools; they don't feel so alone then."
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

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

Oathsworn Vampire

This creature enters tapped.
You may cast this card from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

Imotekh the Stormlord

Necron Warrior

Phaeron — Whenever one or more artifact cards leave your graveyard, create two 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens.
Grand Strategist — At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target artifact creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains menace until end of turn.

Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it.
Equip {4}

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.)

Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

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.

"Shoo, you little worm tails—go away! My corpses aren't your dinner!"
—Ghoulcaller Gisa

Crypt Rats

{X}: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

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.

"The Jeskai like talking about their Way? Let's see them talk their way out of this dilemma."
—Girdah, Abzan beastrider

Jaws of Defeat

Whenever a creature you control enters, target opponent loses life equal to the difference between that creature's power and its toughness.

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.

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

Species Specialist

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

"'Victory is survival' is the tenet that guides us. My love, know that I will always ensure your survivial."
—Duvir, Mardu warrior, final letter

Worthy Cost

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

"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.

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

Whenever Ashcoat attacks or blocks, other Rats you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Rats you control.
At the beginning of your end step, you may mill four cards. If you do, return up to two Rat creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Warrior

Within Range

When this enchantment enters, create two 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens.
Whenever you attack, each opponent loses life equal to the number of creatures attacking them.

Where scavengers nest in hollowed-out rib cages and chittering crawlers peer from empty eye sockets, few dare to trespass.

Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Dark Ritual

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.

Mardu blacksmiths can distill the technology of any clan and make it their own. Whether or not they should is another question.

Skullclamp

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

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.

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 this creature.

"You were so eager to take and consume. Yet when asked to give, you refuse?"

Village Rites

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

Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

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

Rat Colony

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

"If I die today, I will ensure my death is worthy of legend."

Alesha's Legacy

Target creature you control gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

"Sing for us when we depart for battle, and sing for us if we fail to return."
—Mardu parting

Desperate Measures

Target creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. When it dies under your control this turn, draw two cards.

Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

The void is without substance but cuts like steel.

Doom Blade

"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.

Tangled Colony

Clawing for scraps and driven mad by hunger, the individual rats became a writhing mass.

This creature can't block.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token can't block," where X is the amount of damage dealt to it this turn.

Infinite possibilities contained in a finite space.

Thought Vessel

Foul-Tongue shamans draw their powers from a dark twisting of the Draconic language.

Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

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.

In the stronghold's dungeons, the shadows hide in the vermin.

Stronghold Rats

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Return from Extinction

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Nezumi insect-shamans enjoyed solitary lives, which was fortunate since no other nezumi could stand to live within half a mile of their foul stench.

Gnat Miser

Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by one.

The Mukotai Reckoners specialize in stealth and subterfuge.

Mukotai Ambusher

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Lifelink

"When the Second Sun rests between the horns on the horizon, so begins the Hour of Revelation. Then the Hour of Glory, the Hour of Promise, and finally the Hour of Eternity."
—*The Accounting of Hours*

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

We all share one life and one death.
—Rotcaller saying

Valley Rotcaller

Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of other Squirrels, Bats, Lizards, and Rats you control.

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