"A cursed silhouette to look upon. Even if the halls stand empty, its vile shadows blight the land. I shudder to think of the evils that it held."
—Koth

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

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.

"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.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

A monument to long-forgotten gods, it stands as a tribute to the fleeting nature of human ways.

Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Untap target land.

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

When dictated by blinkmoth migratory patterns, clouds of tiny lights well up from Mirrodin's core.

Blinkmoth Well

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Tap target noncreature artifact.

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Swamp

Susur Secundi, Void Altar

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | {1}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Urza's Saga

Construct

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token 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.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

In Sheoldred's domain, the Steel Thanes wage a never-ending war in her long shadow.

The Dross Pits

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

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.)

Amid rumors of war, the third act of *The Absolution of the Guildpact* was quickly rewritten as a tragedy.

Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

No matter how deep Urza delved, he couldn't escape his regrets.

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Snow-Covered Swamp

Command Tower

Tower Winder

"The Path of Flame is a flamekin's most personal journey. You must walk it for yourself, but you'll never walk alone."
—Zasharua, Brighthearth mentor

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

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

The seat of Belzenlok's power, the Stronghold serves as the gathering place for the Cabal as their dark influence spreads from Urborg.

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Barren Moor

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

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Nevinyrral's final act of spite was to make sure all of his magic was destroyed along with him.

Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped.
{1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Denied the peace of the Blessed Sleep, geists lash out at the living, and the cycle of anger and unrest continues unbroken.

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a creature.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

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.

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Do or Die

Separate all creatures target player controls into two piles. Destroy all creatures in the pile of that player's choice. They can't be regenerated.

Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

"It's a difficult task to quarantine a plague that moves with the clouds."
—Esara, healer adept

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Puppeteer Clique

Flying
When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it.
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.)

Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

The feeble resistance of the flesh is over. Phyrexia spreads its shadow over all.

Life's Finale

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

Geth, Lord of the Vault

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
{X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.

"The warm rain of grease on my face immediately made it clear I had entered Phyrexia."
—Jarsyl, Diary

Gate to Phyrexia

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

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.

"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 that card's mana value.

Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

A grave is the safest place to store ill-gotten treasures.

Entomb

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

Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Extractor Demon

Flying
Whenever another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target player mill two cards.
Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{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.)

Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
{T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Army of the Damned

Zombie

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

"Under the suns, Mirrodin kneels and begs us for perfection."
—Geth, Lord of the Vault

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

"Reading it has given me a glimpse of what makes this deeply flawed city so very magnificent."
—Dovin Baan

Tome of the Guildpact

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, draw a card.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

The sound of every twisted secret tempts you to hear another.

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

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

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

"Show me what Norn's sycophants are hiding under all that pretty porcelain."
—Sheoldred

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

"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

Dark Ritual

Demonic Tutor

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

As blood touched the empty page, it formed words that seared themselves into the wizard's mind.

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Those who forget the horrors of the past are doomed to re-meet them.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Infinite Obliteration

Choose a creature 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.

Dead of Winter

All nonsnow creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of snow permanents you control.

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.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

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

Hooded Blightfang

Deathtouch
Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

"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 deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Visara the Dreadful

Flying
{T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

"Death—an outmoded concept. We sleep, and we change."
—Sitrik, birth priest

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature 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.)

Demon of Dark Schemes

Energy Reserve

Flying
When this creature enters, all other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever another creature dies, you get {E} (an energy counter).
{2}{B}, Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Demonlord Belzenlok

Flying, trample
When Demonlord Belzenlok enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card, then put that card into your hand. If the card's mana value is 4 or greater, repeat this process. Demonlord Belzenlok deals 1 damage to you for each card put into your hand this way.

The wise always keep an ear open to the whispers of power.

Diabolic Tutor

He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Lashwrithe

Phyrexian Germ

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Poison Counter

Phyrexian Crusader

First strike, protection from red and from white
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Myr Battlesphere

When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

"Shoo, you little worm tails—go away! My corpses aren't your dinner!"
—Ghoulcaller Gisa

Crypt Rats

{X}: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

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