When defeat is near and guidance is scarce, all eyes look in one direction.

Command Tower

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

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.

Swamp

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}.

Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Ish Sah, den of the warlord Geth, commander of countless nim.

Vault of Whispers

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Tyrite Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Tyrite Sanctum: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

"When gods become apathetic, the people will worship anyone who answers their pleas."
—Kiora

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

The Sun Empire bends nature— rivers, mountainsides, dinosaurs— to its unyielding will.

Evolving Wilds

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

Animal Sanctuary

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target Bird, Cat, Dog, Goat, Ox, or Snake.

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Collective Brutality

Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

"The perfection of the lotus reminds me of my hopes for this world . . . and my failures. I will not rest until I've atoned for them."
—Karn

Gilded Lotus

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.

Lost to time is the artificer's art of trapping light from a distant star in a ring of purest gold.

Sol Ring

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, 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.

"There is great wisdom in rushing headlong into combat . . . if you're prepared."
—Kenjek, captain of the Thousand Swords

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

The Archaeovist of the Solemnace Galleries will not rest until every treasure in the galaxy is safely within his clutches.

Trazyn the Infinite

Deathtouch
Prismatic Gallery — As long as Trazyn the Infinite is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all artifact cards in your graveyard.

It wasn't really expected to fly. Then again, it wasn't expected to move, either.

Pili-Pala

Flying
{2}, {Q}: Add one mana of any color. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

"I admire it. Few pull off pluck and subservience at the same time."
—Ezuri, renegade leader

Brass Squire

{T}: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

It spilled the blood of one elder dragon. In Gideon's hands, it may yet taste another's.

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature {3}
Equip {7}

"Welcome to perfection."
—Sheoldred, Whispering One

Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

"Perfection is at hand. You have been freed of weakness and made *compleat*."
—Sheoldred, Whispering One

Phyresis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Your skill, dexterity, and moral flexibility make you a valuable asset to your guild.

Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Lashwrithe

Phyrexian Germ

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Tarrian's holy weapon still holds a fragment of his dark power... and his hunger.

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip {2}

"Jarad fancies himself king of the undercity, but he's merely king of rot."

Necropolis Regent

Flying
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

With House Voldaren ascendant, some members of the Stromkirk line took it upon themselves to "borrow" from the blood tithes.

Stromkirk Bloodthief

At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target Vampire you control.

"I will not live as a slave. If you would be free, then fight alongside me."

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Blessing of Leeches

Flash
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
{0}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

The only shortcut in a bog is to the bottom.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

"On vile wings and bloody wind, the swarm will rise."
—Skyclave inscription

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

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.)

"Stop bleeding. It's distracting."
—Astarion, the Decadent

Astarion's Thirst

Exile target creature. Put X +1/+1 counters on a commander creature you control, where X is the power of the creature exiled this way.

She sticks to her chosen master closer than their own shadow.

Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar

Commanders you control have menace and deathtouch.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Laughter and conversation trailed off as the revelers gathered around Zegana's body. Three things quickly became clear: it was a murder, the killer was likely among them, and Teysa's party was definitely over.

Murder

The familiar's fangs deliver the master's bite.

Vampiric Link

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

"And then I realized we all have skeletons on the inside. Why wait until the bodies are dead to control them?"
—Jadar, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Skeletal Grimace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "{B}: Regenerate this creature."

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Gavel of the Righteous

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a charge counter on Gavel of the Righteous.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each counter on Gavel of the Righteous.
As long as Gavel of the Righteous has four or more counters on it, equipped creature has double strike.
Equip—Pay {3} or remove a counter from Gavel of the Righteous.

"You are one of the few to whom we offer our blessing. What fool would reject immortality?"
—Runo Stromkirk

Gift of Fangs

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 as long as it's a Vampire. Otherwise, it gets -2/-2.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Under Drana's leadership, vampires are finding new strength in unity.

Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards. (Cards in graveyards have only the characteristics of their front face.)

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

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

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

Most students could barely endure Dean Embrose's scrutiny for a semester or two; Killian lived with it his entire life.

Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip {3}

The thunder of its hooves beats dreams into despair.

Nightmare

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

"We simply cannot tolerate a petty thief among the servants. I'm afraid I'll have to let you go."
—Rog, steward of House Rillyn

Cast Down

Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
{B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.
Equip {1}

Patron of the Vein

Flying
When Patron of the Vein enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

His soul snared by an angel's curse, Crovax twisted heroism into its purest shadow.

Ascendant Evincar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Other black creatures get +1/+1.
Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Demonic Embrace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types.
You may cast Demonic Embrace from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

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.

Pact Weapon

As long as Pact Weapon is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.

Rush of Vitality

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")

It would be unfortunate if the key fell into the wrong hands.

Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

"I appreciate you not letting me fall to my death in the acid bogs. Now, can you let me down?"

Unlikely Aid

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Ebony Fly

Ebony Fly enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}: Roll a d6. Until end of turn, you may have Ebony Fly become an X/X Insect artifact creature with flying, where X is the result.
Whenever Ebony Fly attacks, another target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.

"Lady Anje said no violence at the wedding. She never said anything about the journey there!"

Crossway Troublemakers

Attacking Vampires you control have deathtouch and lifelink.
Whenever a Vampire you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

"The crucible yields what you have forged in your mind. You need only reach in and draw the masterwork forth."
—Wahara, Keeper of the Crucible

Masterwork of Ingenuity

You may have Masterwork of Ingenuity enter the battlefield as a copy of any Equipment on the battlefield.

Linger on death's door and risk being invited in.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

It started as a mere drop of water. The Magic Mirror crystallized it into much more.

Arcane Signet

"With the frequent mutations, predator-prey relationships seem to change every moment. I already like it here."
—Vivien Reid

Unexpected Fangs

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

"Is it true the evil that people do follows them into death? Let's find out."
—Liliana Vess

Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

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