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.

Bojuka Bog

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

The seat of Belzenlok's power, the Stronghold serves as the gathering place for the Cabal as their dark influence spreads from Urborg.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Mutable Explorer

Mutavault

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

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

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.

Desert of the Glorified

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.)

Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

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}.

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"Thus, the shattered half of the planet was
named Kavaron That Is, and the capital
was moved to Kavaron Before."
*—The Tragedy of Emperor Kavarus III*

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

Crypt of Agadeem

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

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.

Swamp

"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}.

Mudflat Village

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target Bat, Lizard, Rat, or Squirrel card from your graveyard to your hand.

Barren Moor

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

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

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.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

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.

Relentless Rats

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

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.

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.

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.

Bottom feeders sometimes rise to the top.

Chittering Rats

When this creature enters, target opponent puts a card from their hand on top of their library.

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.

When Tasigur sent his ambassadors to the Abzan outpost, the true envoys were not the naga but the infectious rats they carried with them.

Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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.

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 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 this creature.

Nighteyes the Desecrator

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

Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator

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 this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

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}

Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

In the Gudul delta, bloodfly bites are indistinguishable from spear wounds.

Swarm of Bloodflies

Flying
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Stinkweed Imp

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.
Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

To a necromancer as powerful as Liliana Vess, a graveyard is as good as a garrison of soldiers awaiting her command.

Cemetery Recruitment

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a Zombie card, draw a card.

Kindly Stranger // Demon-Possessed Witch

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"I'm not afraid out here, for I know that a higher power protects me."

Kindly Stranger

Delirium — {2}{B}: Transform this creature. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

"It looks like you could use some protection of your own."

Demon-Possessed Witch

When this creature transforms into Demon-Possessed Witch, you may destroy target creature.

"Eldrazi don't die easy. Sometimes they don't die at all."
—Yon Basrel, Oran-Rief survivalist

Unnatural Endurance

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

"My time will come, when life's frantic striving will fade into the boundless quiet of death."

Omen of the Dead

Flash
When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 2.

Like the sun to a flower, the adoring gaze of the tribe is sustenance to an elf. To be shunned is to wither.

Pack's Disdain

Choose a creature type. Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each permanent of the chosen type you control.

"No matter how far we push into Stensia, undeath will always remain in these lands."
—Terhold, archmage of Drunau

Marrow Bats

Flying
Pay 4 life: Regenerate this creature.

"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.

Lab Rats

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.

Midnight Scavengers

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Chittering Host

Graf Rats

When this creature enters, you may return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
(Melds with Graf Rats.)

Pestilence Rats

Pestilence Rats's power is equal to the number of other Rats on the battlefield. (For example, as long as there are two other Rats on the battlefield, Pestilence Rats's power and toughness are 2/3.)

Some of the thallids that escaped into the fens of Urborg began emulating the Cabal's bloodsoaked rituals in their own peculiar way.

Thallid Soothsayer

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."

"I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes...'Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!"
—Chong, nomad musician

Secret Tunnel

This land can't be blocked.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Two target creatures you control that share a creature type can't be blocked this turn.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

"I've always had to struggle and fight, and that's made me strong."

Zuko's Conviction

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was kicked, instead put that card onto the battlefield tapped.

"Most people think the lotus tile insignificant, but it is essential for the unusual strategy that I employ."
—Iroh

White Lotus Tile

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.

"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.

"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.

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.

"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.

Dark Ritual

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.)

"The rats that scurried across the floor of my cage were nothing more than skins filled with liquid."
—Hama

Elephant-Rat

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

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.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Bad Moon

Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When this creature enters, each player gets a poison counter.

Haunting Voyage

Foretell

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead.
Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Wicked // Cursed

Lord Skitter's Blessing

When this enchantment enters, create a Wicked Role token attached to target creature you control. (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
At the beginning of your draw step, if you control an enchanted creature, you lose 1 life and you draw an additional card.

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.

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