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

Rakdos Guildgate

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

Swamp

Mountain

Piranha Marsh

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target player loses 1 life.
{T}: Add {B}.

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.
{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}, Exert this land: 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.)

Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Sanctum of Ugin

{T}: Add {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

"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.

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.

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}.

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.

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.

Foreboding Ruins

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

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.

Tainted Peak

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

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}.

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

Haunted Ridge

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

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}.

Rakdos Carnarium

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

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

Shadowblood Ridge

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

Dreadbore

Desecration Demon

Flying
At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Devil-blades and dripping blood make music Rakdos never tires of hearing.

Rakdos Cackler

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.)

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

Rakdos Shred-Freak

For the Rakdos, "suicidal charge" and "good showmanship" are one and the same.

Spike Jester

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."

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.

"Burn. Bleed. Enjoy."
—Cluestone inscription

Rakdos Cluestone

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

"Let him be an example to others who would default on their debts to us."
—"The Cozen," Orzhov assassin

Ultimate Price

Rakdos Charm

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

"Smarter than death? Let's see you outsmart my mace, necromancer!"

Ash Zealot

First strike, haste
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

Slaughter Games

This spell can't be countered.
Choose a nonland card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Although Cryptwitch Merree vanished after a spat with Rakdos, her playthings lingered.

Cryptborn Horror

Trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the total life lost by your opponents this turn.

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.

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.)

Rix Maadi Guildmage

{B}{R}: Target blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
{B}{R}: Target player who lost life this turn loses 1 life.

Carnival

Carnival deals 1 damage to target creature or planeswalker and 1 damage to that permanent's controller.

Carnage

Carnage deals 3 damage to target opponent. That player discards two cards.

Carnival // Carnage

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.

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.

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.)

Rakdos Ringleader

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

Dead Reveler

It took three years for it to occur to him to use the chain as a weapon, but once it did, he made up for lost time.

Ogre Jailbreaker

Defender
This creature can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you control a Gate.

"Straight from the blood-drenched imagination of our illustrious parun!"
—Nyoser, Gore-House ringleader

Spawn of Rix Maadi

Dread Slaver

Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, return it to the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Nothing evens the odds like a little lightning.

Dynacharge

Target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
Overload {2}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Toil

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Trouble

Trouble deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Toil // Trouble

Mizzium Mortars

Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control.
Overload {3}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

"Finally, a weapon the Boros can't confiscate!"
—Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue

Auger Spree

Target creature gets +4/-4 until end of turn.

Underworld Cerberus

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.
When this creature dies, exile it and each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Upon finding his warehouse infested, Gaven didn't know whether to get an exterminator or an exorcist.

Gutter Skulk

"Let him in. He's on the list."
—Olrich, Rakdos club owner

Morgue Burst

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Morgue Burst deals damage to any target equal to the power of the card returned this way.

Many an inventor has collapsed under the pressure to create a flawless design.

Mind Rot

Maze Abomination

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Multicolored creatures you control have deathtouch.

When the guilds cooperate, the guildless celebrate their peaceful society. When the guilds clash, the guildless just try to keep out of the way.

Awe for the Guilds

Monocolored creatures can't block this turn.

He doesn't care whether he's rioting about trade rights or just having a drunken brawl. He wakes up every morning eager to smash some heads.

Riot Piker

First strike
This creature attacks each combat if able.

As the path he sought came into focus, Niv-Mizzet took steps to prevent others from approaching it.

Crackling Perimeter

Tap an untapped Gate you control: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

"I'm in the field of procurement, and business is good. The guilds want all kinds of maps and relics these days, though what they want them for I'm not quite sure."

Bane Alley Blackguard

Those without a guild signet often display a different form of protection.

Civic Saber

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.
Equip {1}

"It's cold in the grave, and the dead crave your warmth. Who are you to deny them?"
—Strava, Dimir mage

Death's Approach

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.

Lobber Crew

Defender
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, untap this creature.

Spot one ember beast, attack.
Spot a second, best fall back.
—Dwarven saying

Ember Beast

This creature can't attack or block alone.

The murderer faced justice in the Azorius courts, but his soul was set free on a technicality.

Dark Revenant

Flying
When this creature dies, put it on top of its owner's library.

Life's too short to not do the things you love.

Launch Party

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

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.

"Her voice is disaster, painful and final."
—Matoc, lavamancer

Lavaborn Muse

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

Molten Primordial

Haste
When this creature enters, for each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

"The maaka remain loyal to us in this time of strife. We don't even have to feed them—our enemies do."
—Nedja, Gruul shaman

Rubblebelt Maaka

Bloodrush — {R}, Discard this card: Target attacking creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

"If only our jails were as secure."
—Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Armored Transport

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures blocking it.

His twisted mind concluded that if he was what he ate, and he wanted to stay human, . . .

Devour Flesh

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

"You caught something on a cold night's stroll? No, I'd say something caught you."
—Mezim Magrah, civic healer

Sinister Possession

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

"The entire murder scene was covered in dripping, oozing slime. No need for a soothsayer to solve that one."
—Pel Javya, Wojek investigator

Catacomb Slug

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Midnight Recovery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

"When justice descends, the servant will burn with the master."
—Aurelia

Punish the Enemy

Punish the Enemy deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker and 3 damage to target creature.

A screech in the night is all it takes for Orzhov debtors to clutch at their coin purses.

Basilica Screecher

Flying
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.)

"The most impressive performances can be done only once."
—Mote, Rakdos madcap

Annihilating Fire

Annihilating Fire deals 3 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

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