Command Tower

Tower Winder

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

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

"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}.

On the border of the Chaos Wall that separates the Edge from the Blind Eternities, creation itself still churns.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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}.

Hissing Quagmire

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

Tainted Wood

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

"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.)

Tranquil Thicket

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

Polluted Mire

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

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}.

Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land.
{T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

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}.

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Swamp

Forest

Restless Cottage

Food

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{2}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 4/4 black and green Horror creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, create a Food token and exile up to one target card from a graveyard.

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.)

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.

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.

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}.

Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

"It was a strange morning. When we awoke, we found our trees transformed. We didn't know whether to water them or polish them."
—Pulan, Bant orchardist

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Some of the nature spirits and wraiths that haunt Urborg take offense at the term "ghost town."

Haunted Mire

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

"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

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.)

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

Foul Orchard

Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.

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.

"Lord Bolas has shown me how each miserable little life holds untold resources."

Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

It fears no sword and leaves no bones behind.

Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Every branch a crossroads, every vine a swift steed.

Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

There were no tombstones in orochi territory. Slain warriors were buried with a tree sapling, so they would become a part of the forest after death.

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"What was once formed by masons, shaped by smiths, or given life by mages, I will return to the embrace of the earth."

Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

"Verdant bloom does exist. It merely hides for its own safety."

Farhaven Elf

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

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.)

Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

He enjoys his work, for he sees only the worst Abzan criminals: those who betray their own kin.

Merciless Executioner

Skullwinder

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand, then choose an opponent. That player returns a card from their graveyard to their hand.

Woodfall Primus

Trample
When this creature enters, destroy target noncreature permanent.
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.)

Yavimaya Elder

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Phyrexian Totem

{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}: This artifact becomes a 5/5 black Phyrexian Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
Whenever this permanent is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.

"I study bone because that's where truth dwells. One monster knucklebone is wiser than all that damp meat in your head."

Skull Prophet

{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Horror

Flesh Carver

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
When this creature dies, create an X/X black Horror creature token, where X is this creature's power.

It claws at the earth in a vain attempt to reclaim what it once was.

Grave Sifter

When this creature enters, each player chooses a creature type and returns any number of cards of that type from their graveyard to their hand.

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

The most popular pit fighters are brought back for encore performances.

Malevolent Awakening

{1}{B}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Open the Graves

Zombie

It was a night like any other. It would soon become a night no one would ever forget.

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"Look how they beg for the knife! The Demonlord has trained them well."

Whisper, Blood Liturgist

{T}, Sacrifice two creatures: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
{T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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.

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.

"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.

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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.)

A-Haywire Mite

Haywire Mite

"They're easy enough to squish, but they're a pain to wash out of a workbench."
—Tergel, goblin explosioneer

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Fang, Fearless l'Cie

Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance

Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie

When Vanille enters, mill two cards, then return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
At the beginning of your first main phase, if you both own and control Vanille and a creature named Fang, Fearless l'Cie, you may pay {3}{B}{G}. If you do, exile them, then meld them into Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance.

"If I don't figure out our Focus soon... Vanille's gonna be a Cieʼth. I'll tear down the sky if it'll save her."

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.
(Melds with Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie.)

A progenitor of tadpoles and allergies in equal measure.

Spore Frog

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

The Accursed are ever drawn to the Hekma, as though its presence provides a brief respite in their lives of eternal torment.

Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Opening Orazca unleashed more horrors than just the Immortal Sun.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

"Sleep now, brother. That is the one gift I can give you."
—Liliana Vess

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

"Life grows everywhere. My kin merely find those places where it grows strongest."
—Nissa Revane

Elvish Mystic

Flare of Cultivation

You may sacrifice a nontoken green creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
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.

"Tread carefully. You remember what happened in the last quiet, peaceful clearing."
—Halana, to Alena

Mulch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"The timeless, tireless jaws of nature shall one day devour us all."
—Sildark, artificer of Omu

Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

It harmonizes with the essence of its master.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

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.

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