Centuries ago, Shizo was a verdant field of wildflowers. After 891 samurai died in a single battle on its grasses, it became a haunted moor.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Bojuka Bog

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

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

Smoldering Marsh

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

Hobs bury their kin far from home. They believe the dry, open ground keeps hags from stealing the bones and gwyllions from stealing the spirits.

Rugged Prairie

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

"Here did the Extinguisher steal the light from the world. Here will we sacrifice her to bring the Great Rekindling to our people."
—Illulia of Nighthearth

Graven Cairns

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

Blood Crypt

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

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)
As Sacred Foundry enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

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.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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.)

Unclaimed Territory

As Unclaimed Territory enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Gale stared into the pool and saw a stranger. The similarities were uncanny, but it was not him.

Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

"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.

Tainted Field

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

Tainted Peak

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

The expedition's end began the marsh's story.

Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

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

Luxury Suite

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

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield 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.

History is not delicately woven. It is hammered with fire.

Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Choose target commander that entered the battlefield this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Swamp

Mountain

Plains

Guul Draz Specter

Flying
Guul Draz Specter gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand.
Whenever Guul Draz Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Stinkdrinker Bandit

Prowl {1}{B} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Goblin or Rogue.)
Whenever a Rogue you control attacks and isn't blocked, it gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Murderous Redcap

When Murderous Redcap enters the battlefield, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
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.)

Such cloaks are in high demand both by assassins and by those who fear them.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

In Mishra's desperation to destroy his brother, he allowed Gix to destroy him instead.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

"Drink this, brother. It will bring you rest."
—Liliana Vess

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

"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.

Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord

As long as it's your turn, creatures and planeswalkers you control have lifelink.
+2: Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
−X: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Sorin had created Avacyn, so it was a cruelty beyond imagining, a pain beyond description, that it fell upon him to end her forever.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Rakdos Charm

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

Do not fear the lightning. Fear the one it obeys.

Crackling Doom

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Like his mother before him, Darigaaz gave his life defending Dominaria from the tyranny of self-styled "gods."

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

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

Go for the Throat

"Your debt is erased."
—Hilgur, Orzhov euthanist

Mortify

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

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

"I have seen things that would reduce a weaker person to blubbering and raving. Want to hear about them?"
—Vraska

Night's Whisper

"Conquering your first world is the hardest, after all. My power grew as I moved from world to world, taking anything that would make the next taking easier."
—Ob Nixilis

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

If you're looking for it, it's available. The question is how much you're willing to pay.

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

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.

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.

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"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.

When a paladin undertaking the Blood Fast finally gives in to hunger, the violence is sudden, explosive, and complete.

Bloodcrazed Paladin

Flash
Bloodcrazed Paladin enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died this turn.

A few aetherborn have discovered a way to sustain their own existences at the cost of an insatiable hunger for the life essence of other beings.

Gifted Aetherborn

As they fought the Eldrazi, many vampires learned to live among humans. Others were unable to make the adjustment.

Vampire Nighthawk

"Ah, this is a nice life. I can see why you were so desperate to keep it."

Dark Impostor

{4}{B}{B}: Exile target creature and put a +1/+1 counter on Dark Impostor.
Dark Impostor has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

Olivia Voldaren

Flying
{1}{R}: Olivia Voldaren deals 1 damage to another target creature. That creature becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on Olivia Voldaren.
{3}{B}{B}: Gain control of target Vampire for as long as you control Olivia Voldaren.

Hate is an everlasting wellspring from which she is eternally sustained.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

"This place suits me: craven authorities and plentiful prey."

Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Vampire Nocturnus

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

The lacerators cut themselves before each hunt. They must feed before the sun rises or bleed to death.

Vampire Lacerator

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life unless an opponent has 10 or less life.

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.

Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block.
Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

Once they reached Orazca, the Legion's explorers ransacked tombs and temples, hunting for the Immortal Sun.

Dusk Legion Zealot

When Dusk Legion Zealot enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

"The time for subtlety is over, darling."

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.

Vein Drinker

Flying
{R}, {T}: Vein Drinker deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to Vein Drinker.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Vein Drinker this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Vein Drinker.

"Mortals practice swordplay for a few decades at best. How can they ever attain the exquisite mastery that eternity has to offer?"

Markov Blademaster

Double strike
Whenever Markov Blademaster deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Throat Slitter deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

A drop now is all he needs to find you later.

Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

"The gods here may walk among the people, but they are not with them."
—Gideon Jura

Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Blood Tribute

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card.
−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

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."

Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle

Vampire

In the rapture of his Blood Fast, he destroyed the navigator's tools and steered the ship to shore by faith alone.

Whenever one or more nontoken Vampires you control attack, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Captivating Crew

{3}{R}: Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

The destruction of Markov Manor made the surviving members of the bloodline more dangerous.

Markov Dreadknight

Flying
{2}{B}, Discard a card: Put two +1/+1 counters on Markov Dreadknight.

Oona's Blackguard

Flying
Each other Rogue creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Any pleasure, when taken to excess, becomes torment. It's a formula that demons have perfected.

Master of the Feast

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Thief of Blood

Flying
As Thief of Blood enters the battlefield, remove all counters from all permanents. Thief of Blood enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each counter removed this way.

Guul Draz Overseer

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, other creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. If that land is a Swamp, those creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn instead.

Blood Scrivener

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

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