"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

Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

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}.

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Arena of Glory

Arena of Glory enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}, Exert Arena of Glory: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Bojuka Bog

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

Witch's Cottage

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

Molten Slagheap

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on Molten Slagheap.
{1}, Remove X storage counters from Molten Slagheap: Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}.

"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.

Blood

Voldaren Estate

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Vampire spell.
{5}, {T}: Create a Blood token. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each Vampire you control. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Rakdos Carnarium

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

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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.)

Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters tapped.
When Temple of Malice enters, scry 1.
{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}.

Tainted Peak

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

Bloodfell Caves

Bloodfell Caves enters tapped.
When Bloodfell Caves enters, you gain 1 life.
{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}.

Gnolls make offerings to sinister forces in the shadow-drenched chasms.

Shadowblood Ridge

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.

"Tense day of travel. Couldn't shake the feeling those peaks were about to topple."
—Pioneer journal of Big Ralph

Jagged Barrens

Jagged Barrens enters tapped.
When Jagged Barrens enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
{T}: Add {B} or {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.

"No longer can we allow our human populations to be mindlessly slaughtered by ghouls. Slay all who trespass."
—Runo Stromkirk

Stromkirk Captain

First strike
Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1 and have first strike.

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.

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.

Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet

Vampire

{B}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, create a black Vampire creature token. Its power is equal to that creature's power and its toughness is equal to that creature's toughness.

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.

"So many have died in search of that map. And now it appears in the hands of the arrogant child Chandra Nalaar."

Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature.

"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.

His verdict is always guilty. His sentence is always death.

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Blade of the Bloodchief

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip {1}

"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.

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

Vampire Nighthawk

"If you're not surrounded by decadence, my question to you is—why not?"

Indulgent Aristocrat

Lifelink
{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

"Please, come in! Hors d'oeuvres are on the table."

Cordial Vampire

Whenever Cordial Vampire or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Eldrazi Spawn

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

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

"You may enter the city—once the toll is paid."

Gatekeeper of Malakir

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.)
When Gatekeeper of Malakir enters, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

For a bittersweet moment, Jace believed he could still save his love. A moment was all Vraska needed. "For the glory of Phyrexia," she whispered.

Phyrexian Arena

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

"A responsible king walks among his subjects."

Stromkirk Noble

Stromkirk Noble can't be blocked by Humans.
Whenever Stromkirk Noble deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"As we muster for war, I have little patience for lethargy or recalcitrance."

Olivia's Bloodsworn

Flying
Olivia's Bloodsworn can't block.
{R}: Target Vampire gains haste until end of turn.

Falkenrath Gorger

Each Vampire creature card you own that isn't on the battlefield has madness. The madness cost is equal to its mana cost. (If you discard a card with madness, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

"My liege will lead and I will follow—to the battlefield, to the grave, and beyond."

Bloodsworn Steward

Flying
Commander creatures you control get +2/+2 and have haste.

Displays of Voldaren bloodlust are not restricted to glamorous banquets and lavish parties.

Olivia's Dragoon

Discard a card: Olivia's Dragoon gains flying until end of turn.

"Blood from the vein is the finest vintage to accompany a feast of the mind."
—Runo Stromkirk

Stromkirk Condemned

Discard a card: Vampires you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

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.

"You can't think your way out of this, Jace. Thought implies life, and life requires a pulse—music to a hunter's ears."
—Vraska

Pulse Tracker

Whenever Pulse Tracker attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

Vampire Cutthroat

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Insolent Neonate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Discard a card, Sacrifice Insolent Neonate: Draw a card.

"A creature's bloodscent is a beacon that cannot be disguised."

Guul Draz Vampire

As long as an opponent has 10 or less life, Guul Draz Vampire gets +2/+1 and has intimidate. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Falkenrath Exterminator

Whenever Falkenrath Exterminator deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
{2}{R}: Falkenrath Exterminator deals damage to target creature equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on Falkenrath Exterminator.

The Voldaren have begun demanding blood offerings from the villagers in their territory. Their agents arrive from the sky to collect the ceremonial bowls in eerie silence.

Vampire Interloper

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

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.

No guilds—that is her rule. The House vampires unnerve her. The Combine would dissect her, the Legion burn her, the Conclave "cure" her. The shadows are all the family she needs.

Child of Night

"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.

"Zendikar will fight until it has bled its last."

Vampire Envoy

Flying
Whenever Vampire Envoy becomes tapped, you gain 1 life.

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor

On an Adventure

"My quest? Why, to marry Ayara. Or die trying."

Smitten Swordmaster

Curry Favor

You gain X life and each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of Knights you control.

"We can't win a war on an empty stomach, can we?"
—Olivia Voldaren

Stensia Banquet

Stensia Banquet deals damage to target opponent or planeswalker equal to the number of Vampires you control.
Draw a card.

"The pain of searing iron and razor edges pales beside the pleasure of performance."
—Judith

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

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

Go for the Throat

"The vampires of this world don't know the pleasures of hunger. They gorge themselves without savoring the kill."
—Sorin Markov

Feast of Blood

Cast this spell only if you control two or more Vampires.
Destroy target creature. You gain 4 life.

Stensia Masquerade

Attacking creatures you control have first strike.
Whenever a Vampire you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Madness {2}{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.)

Vampirism

Enchant creature
When Vampirism enters, draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.
Other creatures you control get -1/-1.

With a snap of metal like a strike of lightning, the tide of war shifted in Mishra's favor.

Disfigure

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

"Still alive? No matter. I'll leave you as a warning to others who would oppose me."
—Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter

Crippling Blight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 and can't block.

"Don't worry, your death will be as informative as possible."
—Gorghul, augur of skulls

Altar's Reap

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

"I have no patience for sipping blood from crystal goblets. I want to bite and tear."

Savage Gorger

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Savage Gorger. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Murder

"The future is a snake, devouring your life backwards through time. And when you die, believe me, it doesn't stop feeding."
—Sedris, the Traitor King

Shadowfeed

Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 3 life.

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch
{B}, Reveal Tetzimoc, Primal Death from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.
When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

"From the ashes of Reito rose a new kami. And thereafter at every battle came Horobi, Death's Wail."
—*The History of Kamigawa*

Horobi, Death's Wail

Flying
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

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