Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

Bojuka Bog

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

Swamp

Plains

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

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}.

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.

In Sheoldred's domain, the Steel Thanes wage a never-ending war in her long shadow.

The Dross Pits

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

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.

Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

"For centuries my creation kept this world in balance. Now only her shadow remains."
—Sorin Markov

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Orzhov Basilica

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

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

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

Serra's blessing lies strongest upon Sursi, where her holy chapels are untouched even as the Cabal encroaches.

Isolated Chapel

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

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

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

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

Tainted Field

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

A flickering beacon of righteous corruption.

Shineshadow Snarl

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

In volatile times, a sense of certainty is in high demand.

Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Even the poisoned land around the Stronghold blossomed with new life in the wake of the Great Mending.

Sunlit Marsh

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

"Young Vitima bellowed to the Cosmos, daring the gods to punish her hubris! Well, she got their attention, as you can see."
—Iskene, Kannah storyteller

Snowfield Sinkhole

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.)

No self-respecting criminal has a basement with only one exit.

Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Esper is an expansive canvas painted by precise, controlling hands.

Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enter to find wealth, security, and eternal life . . . for just a small price up front.

Orzhov Guildgate

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

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.

The Curse of Wandering leaves only hatred.

Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.
{1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Liliana's Mastery

Zombie

"There are so many of them. It seems they've just been waiting for someone to serve."

Zombies you control get +1/+1.
When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Noosegraf Mob

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell, remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

"To see past the veil of death, cross it."
—*The Red Book of Mezdrithalik*

Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Zombie Knight

Josu Vess, Lich Knight

Kicker {5}{B} (You may pay an additional {5}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Menace
When Josu Vess enters, if it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

Zombie Infestation

The nomads' funeral pyres are more practical than ceremonial.

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Endless Obedience

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Dark Salvation

Countless ghouls surged through Thraben's streets, and with them came the city's salvation.

Target player creates X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, then up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Zombie that player controls.

Empty the Pits

The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

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

Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Army of the Damned

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Unbreathing Horde

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard.
If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

"Death is no excuse for disobedience."
—Liliana Vess

Rise from the Grave

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

A mage willing to dedicate his life to his craft.

Apprentice Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Even the lost and undead need a protector.

Wight of Precinct Six

This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Necromancer's Stockpile

The experiments decided to perform some research of their own.

{1}{B}, Discard a creature card: Draw a card. If the discarded card was a Zombie card, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Squirrel

Nested Shambler

When this creature dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is this creature's power.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"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.

"I am no sleeper agent. I am a liberator. It is you who are asleep."

Metastatic Evangel

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Start Your Engines! // Max Speed

Zahur, Glory's Past

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. Activate only once each turn.
Max speed — Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Sun Titan

Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Grateful Apparition

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Rite of Oblivion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a nonland permanent.
Exile target nonland permanent.
Flashback {2}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Servo

Hidden Stockpile

Revolt — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1.

"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 "leaking spire" stands for liberation from Consulate control.

Call for Unity

Revolt — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, put a unity counter on this enchantment.
Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each unity counter on this enchantment.

"Shar's will shall be done. As sure as night will fall."

Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Embalmed Ascendant

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Max speed — Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Sinking into the Dross is neither a gentle death nor a quiet one. But once the necrogen takes hold, it is inevitable.

Drown in Ichor

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

No matter how deep you bury it, some evil refuses to stay dead.

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

An infinite journey in an infinitesimal time.

Flicker of Fate

Exile target creature or enchantment, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

"You trespass on sacred ground, monster. Leave while you still can."

Your Temple Is Under Attack

Choose one —
• Pray for Protection — Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Strike a Deal — You and target opponent each draw two cards.

For a razorkin, painless dissolution is a far worse fate than agonizing death.

Utter End

"Whichever side wins, I'm sure the banquet will be superb."

Cruel Celebrant

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

Scions of the Markov line take particular pleasure in the perversion of humans' holy rituals.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Settle Beyond Reality

Choose one or both —
• Exile target creature you don't control.
• Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Treasure

Life Insurance

All the money in the world won't buy back a pulse.

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 a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact.
{2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

The person who finishes a journey is rarely the same as the one who starts it.

Long Road Home

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

The queen sent her champion to defeat the necromancer threat. His helmet was returned the next day, warped and stained with blood.

Mortify

The cries of survivor and cellarspawn mingled in a single, terrible roar as they plunged into the fathomless depths.

Final Vengeance

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

Vampire Demon

Vampire

March of the Canonized

When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if your devotion to white and black is seven or greater, create a 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying.

Renegades find ever more creative ways to work around the Consulate's aether regulations.

Acrobatic Maneuver

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Draw a card.

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.

"You'll never get to the top if you don't know who's already there."
—Kaya

Talisman of Hierarchy

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

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