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}.

Bloodfell Caves

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

Akoum Refuge

Akoum Refuge enters tapped.
When Akoum Refuge enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} 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.

Blood Crypt

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

Temple of Malice

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

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

Cinder Barrens

Cinder Barrens enters tapped.
{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}.

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.

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.

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}.

Swamp

Mountain

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.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

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

Shadowblood Ridge

Mortuary Mire

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

Restless Vents

Restless Vents enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, Restless Vents becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Vents attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

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

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

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.

Hidden Grotto

When Hidden Grotto enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

"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.

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Torment of Hailfire

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

"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.

"Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That's the fate of the weak."
—Nicol Bolas

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

"Holy places are no longer sanctuary from death, and death is no longer sanctuary from anything."
—Thalia, Knight-Cathar

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

"There is great wisdom in rushing headlong into combat . . . if you're prepared."
—Kenjek, captain of the Thousand Swords

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

"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

Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Chandra, Torch of Defiance Emblem

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 2 damage to each opponent.
+1: Add {R}{R}.
−3: Chandra, Torch of Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.
−7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Angrath, the Flame-Chained

+1: Each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
−3: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step if it has mana value 3 or less.
−8: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Zombie

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

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

Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, 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.

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, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

"He is judge, jury, and executioner because he killed them all."
—Bishop Cawle of Elgaud

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Its victims become mindless lunatics. Conveniently, that's the first step in joining the Cult of Rakdos.

Sire of Insanity

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards their hand.

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever Grave Titan enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

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.

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.

"Rats and jackals feast in his swath, but even they will not walk with him."
—Mangara

Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

"We can't control enemies who have no regard for their own survival."
—Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct

Havoc Festival

Players can't gain life.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.)

Herala sighed as the creature pulled itself from the smoldering pit, the ground boiling beneath its still-glowing feet. She had just plowed that field.

Meteor Golem

When Meteor Golem enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Pestilence

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

"Listen to the roar! Feel the thunder! The Immersturm shouts its approval with every bolt of lightning!"

Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

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."

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.

Whenever Valgavoth sheds his old form, a Harrowing courses through the House like a malevolent wave, spawning new horrors and inciting its inhabitants to frenzy.

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

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

Dreadbore

"I welcome the use of even the foulest magic if it will rid us of the monstrosities that plague our world."
—Munda, ambush leader

Grasp of Darkness

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

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.")

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.

Like a carpet unrolling for their god, the scarabs poured out from the necropolis.

Torment of Scarabs

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card.

Leyline of Punishment

If Leyline of Punishment is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Players can't gain life.
Damage can't be prevented.

Bitterheart Witch

Deathtouch
When Bitterheart Witch dies, you may search your library for a Curse card, put it onto the battlefield attached to target player, then shuffle.

Liliana's Contract

When Liliana's Contract enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

"Maybe they wanted to be on the winning side for once."
—Matoc, lavamancer

Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"
—Liliana Vess

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Demon

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

"The light of my master's guidance traverses all boundaries, even those separating life and death."

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

True power is achieved through blood and sweat. But mostly blood.

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Demonic Collusion

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Deep beneath the ice, beneath the soil and the rock, Dominaria's fire still burned hot.

Rite of Flame

Add {R}{R}, then add {R} for each card named Rite of Flame in each graveyard.

Fire Covenant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

"You'd better be worth it."
—Liliana Vess

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

The Cauldron of Eternity

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
{2}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

"The first birth celebrates life. The second birth mocks it."
—Mystic elder

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on Out of the Tombs, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

Flying
Enmitic Exterminator — When Lokhust Heavy Destroyer enters, each player sacrifices a creature.
Unearth {5}{B}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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