Rakdos Carnarium

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

"These caves hide beasts above and below their waters. For safe passage, the Sultai agree a small cargo trade is fair for risking our necks."
—Samor, Mardu border guard

Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Akoum Refuge

"I do as I choose with what is mine. And it is all mine."
—Nicol Bolas

Cinder Barrens

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

Temple of Malice

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 {R}.

What began with a deafening roar ends in uncertain silence . . .

Dragonskull Summit

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

The boggart was playfully prodding a critter when the skies darkened, then he gobbled it down with glee.

Blood Crypt

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

Using their stolen Time Scepter—with total command of time and space—Bebop and Rocksteady departed for Prehistoric Earth in search of "somethin' big ta wrassle."

Smoldering Marsh

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

Canyon Slough

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

Command Tower

Tower Winder

Back in the '80s, Channel 6 built their headquarters at the corner of Spectacle and Scandal.

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

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

Rakdos Guildgate

Mountain

Swamp

"I gazed once into that light. Now it burns in my mind, forever denying me rest."
—Riku of Two Reflections

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

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}.

Barbarian Ring

{T}: Add {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

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

Sulfurous Springs

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

Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

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

Luxury Suite

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

A graveyard for conquerors and conquered alike.

Bloodstained Mire

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

"Yooo, Rock, check that out. A *mutant* music club?"
—Bebop

Exotic Orchard

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

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.

Badlands

The Time Scepter can not only control time, but bend reality itself. Its master could rule all of reality, rewriting history to suit their whims.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Antonio's accommodated every request, asked no questions, and stayed open late. Truly a light in the darkness.

Sol Ring

Made of bone and boiled in blood, a Rakdos signet is not considered finished until it has been used as a murder weapon.

Rakdos Signet

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Dragon Tempest

Whenever a creature you control with flying enters, it gains haste until end of turn.
Whenever a Dragon you control enters, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control.

The power to draw on the wisdom of your allies at any time, from any place . . . or trade cat pics!

Arcane Signet

Its collapse is like the lashing out of a long-dead civilization that resents being forgotten.

Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target permanent.

Guarded by cartographers, disdained by warlords, coveted by adventurers.

Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Druids hold certain plants to be sacred and use their leaves and wood as a spellcasting focus.

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

"Burn. Bleed. Enjoy."
—Cluestone inscription

Rakdos Cluestone

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Ob Nixilis Reignited

Ob Nixilis Reignited Emblem

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

The Rakdos use it for everything you can think of and plenty more than that.

Rakdos Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{B}{R}: This artifact becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player.
−2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Ever wonder why you never see an old Rakdos cultist?

Rakdos Firewheeler

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

Trapped on Ravnica with no affection for either side, Ob Nixilis sought gratification in random acts of torment.

Ob Nixilis's Cruelty

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

When Lord Rakdos stirred from his slumber, everyone else's nightmare began.

Rakdos's Return

Rakdos's Return deals X damage to target opponent or planeswalker. That player or that planeswalker's controller discards X cards.

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

Dreadbore

Murderous Rider // Swift End

On an Adventure

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

"I take no pleasure in your suffering, but it is necessary. Once you accept your fate you'll find eternity more tolerable."

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a 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.

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Despite their stake in the city's survival, Rakdos cultists are loath to pass up any opportunity to sow chaos.

Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

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.

Zombie

Captive Audience

This enchantment enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Your life total becomes 4.
• Discard your hand.
• Each opponent creates five 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

His spark lost, he plots revenge upon the plane whose corrupting mana fractured his soul.

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.

Rakdos the Defiler

Flying, trample
Whenever Rakdos 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 of their choice, rounded up.

Master of Cruelties

First strike, deathtouch
This creature can only attack alone.
Whenever this creature attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. This creature assigns no combat damage this combat.

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.)

The litany of the infernal on his flesh pulses to the beating of his dark heart.

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"The Cabal and the Order really aren't that different. After all, we are both empowered by faith."

Vile Deacon

Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Clerics on the battlefield.

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

Tymaret, the Murder King

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

Insatiable Hemophage

Mutate {2}{B} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated.

"We all hide a little madness behind our sophistication, do we not?"

Anje Falkenrath

Haste
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
Whenever you discard a card, if it has madness, untap Anje Falkenrath.

Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Dragon Whisperer

Dragon

{R}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
{1}{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Formidable — {4}{R}{R}: Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Knight of the Ebon Legion

{2}{B}: This creature gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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, this creature deals 1 damage to each player. Then if you have 10 or less life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

"Silumgar's mind is a dark labyrinth, full of grim secrets and subtle traps."
—Siara, the Dragon's Mouth

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

When the bog ran short on small animals, Ekri turned to the surrounding farmlands.

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

No lock of iron is a match for Vraska's will of stone.

Costly Plunder

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards.

Dark Ritual

The importance of using updated Pinnacle codebooks is a lesson learned only once.

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.

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Kolaghan's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target player discards a card.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

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.

"Grand city? No. This is nothing but another squalid cage."

Angrath's Rampage

Choose one —
• Target player sacrifices an artifact of their choice.
• Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target player sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{2}: Put the bottom card of your library into your graveyard. If it's a creature card with power less than or equal to Grenzo's power, put it onto the battlefield.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

Xathrid Demon

Flying, trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature, then each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. If you can't sacrifice a creature, tap this creature and you lose 7 life.

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