Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

When the Planeswalker Angrath called dinosaurs "dragons," the name stuck in certain pirate circles.

Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters tapped.
When Temple of Malice enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Enter and indulge your darkest fantasies, for you may never pass this way again.

Rakdos Guildgate

Rakdos Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters tapped.
When Rakdos Carnarium enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{R}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"Those who fail to escape Malakir become part of the city's defense."
—Doros, expedition guide

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

"Getting into Malakir isn't difficult. It's getting out that's the hard part."
—Doros, expedition guide

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Swamp

Mountain

Barren Moor

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

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

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain 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.

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}.

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.

Maze of Ith

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

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: 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.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

The continent of Guul Draz is a geothermal swampland reeking of heat and decay.

Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
Smoldering Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

In opulent chambers behind closed doors, dynasties are made and broken with but a few murmured words.

Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Foreboding Ruins

As Foreboding Ruins enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Swirling eddies of ash hide crumbling cliffs, treacherous drops, and the slavering maws of unknown evils.

Haunted Ridge

Haunted Ridge enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Shamans of Kar-Sengir claim that their sun sets because it can no longer bear the gaze of those pain-carved cliffs.

Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}.
{B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Tainted Peak

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

Everything is flammable in the Burning Isles, even the mana itself.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

A graveyard for conquerors and conquered alike.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Without the interfering hands of civilization, nature will always shape itself to its own needs.

Evolving Wilds

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

Bloodfell Caves

Bloodfell Caves enters tapped.
When Bloodfell Caves enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Here, the Balemurk spits and boils, the oppressive darkness pierced by scorching spears of fire.

Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}.
{T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Lightning Bolt

Toralf's Disciple

Thayan Evokers

Indris, the Hydrostatic Surge

The sparkmage shrieked, calling on the rage of the storms of his youth. To his surprise, the sky responded with a fierce energy he'd never thought to see again.

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

In Rakdos-controlled neighborhoods, everyone is part of the show.

Dreadbore

While the smell of burning flesh is common in Grixis, the odor of smoldering brain matter is a rare treat.

Blightning

Blightning deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards two cards.

"This trinket will gain you admittance to some painfully exclusive gatherings."
—Exava, blood witch

Rakdos Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}, {T}, Sacrifice Rakdos Locket: Draw two cards.

Rakdos Guildmage

Goblin

({B/R} can be paid with either {B} or {R}.)
{3}{B}, Discard a card: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{R}: Create a 2/1 red Goblin creature token with haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

"If there were such a thing as a soul, I think it would be behind the gallbladder but above the kidneys."

Rakdos Shred-Freak

Rakdos rioters paint their faces to resemble the drakes' bloodied muzzles.

Rakdos Drake

Flying
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

"Our thrulls dissolve from the inside out in a matter of days. Shoddy work, but they're a scream while they last."
—Uzric, Rakdos guildmage

Rakdos Ickspitter

{T}: Rakdos Ickspitter deals 1 damage to target creature and that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Rakdos Ringleader

First strike
Whenever Rakdos Ringleader deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random.
{B}: Regenerate Rakdos Ringleader.

Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos the Defiler attacks, sacrifice half the non-Demon permanents you control, rounded up.
Whenever Rakdos deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices half the non-Demon permanents they control, rounded up.

Rakdos Augermage

First strike
{T}: Reveal your hand and discard a card of target opponent's choice. Then that player reveals their hand and discards a card of your choice. Activate only as a sorcery.

Ever wonder why you never see an old Rakdos cultist?

Rakdos Firewheeler

When Rakdos Firewheeler enters, it deals 2 damage to target opponent and 2 damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Ragemutts pull the chariots of the Butcher Clowns, a trio of wingless, zombified faeries formerly of the Izzet.

Rakdos Ragemutt

Caution: Audience in front row may have throats ripped out.

Rakdos Headliner

Haste
Echo—Discard a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast this spell unless an opponent lost life this turn.
Flying, trample
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Rakdos, the Showstopper

Flying, trample
When Rakdos, the Showstopper enters, flip a coin for each creature that isn't a Demon, Devil, or Imp. Destroy each creature whose coin comes up tails.

Spawn of Mayhem

Spectacle {1}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, Spawn of Mayhem deals 1 damage to each player. Then if you have 10 or less life, put a +1/+1 counter on Spawn of Mayhem.

"The louder their performance, the quieter we become in comparison. They are the perfect distractions, for only fools ignore the Rakdos."
—Lazav

Rakdos Trumpeter

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{3}{R}: Rakdos Trumpeter gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Demonlord of Ashmouth

Flying
When Demonlord of Ashmouth enters, exile it unless you sacrifice another creature.
Undying (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.)

The Rakdos make sure their victims remember their pain—or at least give up a little bit of their sanity in order to forget.

Pain Magnification

Whenever an opponent is dealt 3 or more damage by a single source, that player discards a card.

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.

Dead Revels

Spectacle {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Enslave

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted creature deals 1 damage to its owner.

Sometimes primitive cultures attributed natural phenomena to monsters. Sometimes they were right.

Thunder Dragon

Flying
When Thunder Dragon enters, it deals 3 damage to each creature without flying.

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.

Theater of Horrors

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library.
During your turn, if an opponent lost life this turn, you may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Theater of Horrors.
{3}{R}: Theater of Horrors deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Its favorite treats are candied hands and sweet hearts.

Carnival Hellsteed

First strike, haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Steel Hellkite

Flying
{2}: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
{X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Boneyard Parley

Exile up to five target creature cards from graveyards. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put all cards from the pile of your choice onto the battlefield under your control and the rest into their owners' graveyards.

Bludgeon Brawl

Each noncreature, non-Equipment artifact is an Equipment with equip {X} and "Equipped creature gets +X/+0," where X is that artifact's mana value.

Darksteel Hydra

Darksteel Ingot

"It reflects the purity of Mirrodin-that-was."
—Koth of the Hammer

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

"We could never accept anyone with a face that pretty or a mind that sane."
—Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Skull Rend

Skull Rend deals 2 damage to each opponent. Those players each discard two cards at random.

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch

First strike, haste
Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste.

Pyrohemia

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pyrohemia.
{R}: Pyrohemia deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Its curve mimics the twists of life and death.

Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Crypt Ghast

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 you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

His memories remained in the Underworld, but his cruelty crossed the Rivers with him.

Tymaret, the Murder King

{1}{R}, Sacrifice another creature: Tymaret, the Murder King deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return Tymaret from your graveyard to your hand.

At the end of the show, she stands alone on a stage brilliant with blood.

Judith, the Scourge Diva

Other creatures you control get +1/+0.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Judith, the Scourge Diva deals 1 damage to any target.

"Molten earth has no anger of its own. Only by infusing it with your own rage can the magma seethe and take shape."
—Koth of the Hammer

Anger

Haste
As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"Death has seeped into every part of this plane. I can feel it on my skin and taste it like sand in my mouth."
—Nissa Revane

Shadow of the Grave

Return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that you cycled or discarded this turn.

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Sacrificial rites take place before an audience of cheering cultists, each begging to be the next on stage.

Lyzolda, the Blood Witch

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Lyzolda, the Blood Witch deals 2 damage to any target if the sacrificed creature was red. Draw a card if the sacrificed creature was black.

Avacyn's Judgment

Madness {X}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Avacyn's Judgment deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. If this spell's madness cost was paid, it deals X damage divided as you choose among those permanents and/or players instead.

Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Scrapyard Recombiner

Modular 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for a Construct card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

A demon cannot be trusted, and a dragon will not be ruled.

Malfegor

Flying
When Malfegor enters, discard your hand. Each opponent sacrifices a creature for each card discarded this way.

Malakir Bloodwitch

Flying, protection from white
When Malakir Bloodwitch enters, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

"This is what glory looks like."
—Nicol Bolas

Neheb, the Eternal

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, add {R} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

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