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.

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}.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

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.

Treasure Map // Treasure Cove

Treasure

Ixalan Checklist

Treasure Map

{1}, {T}: Scry 1. Put a landmark counter on this artifact. Then if there are three or more landmark counters on it, remove those counters, transform this artifact, and create three Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Treasure Cove

(Transforms from Treasure Map.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Draw a card.

Swamp

Island

"I can't protect everyone here. But those I can, I will."
—Karn

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Mystic Sanctuary

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

Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{1}{U}{B}: This land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Without Vantress's knowledge, the realm would lose itself in darkness.

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Restless Reef

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.
{2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, target player mills four cards.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

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

On the continent of Tazeem, rushing waters plunge through narrow canyons into mist-cloaked lakes.

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

None can tell how many vessels are tangled up on the sea floor—or how much treasure remains unclaimed.

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

The bones of doomed ships jut out from the muck while the bones of their sailors molder below.

Shipwreck Marsh

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

Haven of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Dragon creature spell.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target Dragon creature card or Ugin planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Choked Estuary

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

Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Dimir Aqueduct

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

Tainted Isle

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

Murky Otarian tides hide the forgotten treacheries of the Phyrexian war.

Darkwater Catacombs

"The war polluted the land, turning what had once been fruitful fields into fetid morasses of mud and rusted corpses."
—*The Antiquities War*

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

"No machinations, no puppet strings, no plots. Just pure, sweeping death."
—Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Flying, hexproof
Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures defending player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Ugin's whispered summons led Sarkhan Vol to the moment that would echo down the centuries and seal Tarkir's fate: the primal battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas.

Crux of Fate

Choose one —
• Destroy all Dragon creatures.
• Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Silumgar never passes up an opportunity to add to his opulence.

Dragonlord Silumgar

Flying, deathtouch
When Dragonlord Silumgar enters, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.

Mourning shifts seamlessly to celebration as she chooses her next suitor.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

In the Gudul delta, bloodfly bites are indistinguishable from spear wounds.

Swarm of Bloodflies

Flying
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

"The worthy shall strive for greatness. Supremacy in life leads to supremacy in the afterlife."
—Monument inscription

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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.

God-Eternal Bontu

Menace
When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards.
When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

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.)

Zombie Knight

Josu Vess, Lich Knight

Kicker {5}{B} (You may pay an additional {5}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Menace
When Josu Vess enters, if it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer Emblem

Magic Origins Checklist

Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

Zombie

Liliana, Heretical Healer

Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Liliana, Defiant Necromancer

+2: Each player discards a card.
−X: Return target nonlegendary creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step."

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

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

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."

"I prefer the big and looming to the small and skittering."
—Cevraya, Golgari shaman

Lotleth Giant

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent for each creature card in your graveyard.

The light sigh of its breath whistles through its bones.

Mortivore

Mortivore's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
{B}: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Necroplasm

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of your end step, destroy each creature with mana value equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

"I think someone is stealing from my laboratory. It had better not be you!"
—Geralf, letter to Gisa

Ransack the Lab

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

"May all the cairns of Jund be toppled."
—Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Scourge of Nel Toth

Flying
You may cast this creature from your graveyard by paying {B}{B} and sacrificing two creatures rather than paying its mana cost.

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
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.)

"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.)

Desecrated Tomb

The grave robbers were startled, for the door to the mausoleum was already open.

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

No one welcomes his visit, yet all must grant him tribute.

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Murder

"If you will not pour your drink out for me, I shall pour mine out for you."

Pharika's Libation

Choose one —
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature.
Destroy target creature.
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.)

Trapped on Ravnica with no affection for either side, Ob Nixilis sought gratification in random acts of torment.

Ob Nixilis's Cruelty

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

The Orzhov are not the only religious tradition on Ravnica, nor the oldest.

Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
{T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

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 leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

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.

"Victory in the pits is almost as rewarding as the methods I use to achieve it."

Sadistic Hypnotist

Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

It has no respect for the deeds of martyrs, reducing their legacy to a mouthful of flesh.

Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"The bones of allies grant wisdom. The bones of enemies grant strength. The bones of dragons grant life eternal."

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

"Jade-touched, wisteria-crowned, with gifts of gold and the Harvest's blessing, return this honored one to us as sibsig."
—Priests' chant

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Emry enters, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Accurate information is a precious commodity in times of war.

Mirran Spy

Flying
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may untap target creature.

"It's a beautiful vision. Discarded debris is reborn as a singular entity."
—Urabrask the Hidden

Rusted Slasher

Sacrifice an artifact: Regenerate this creature.

Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Acererak the Archlich

Lost Mine of Phandelver

Tomb of Annihilation

A-Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon.
Whenever Acererak attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"They won't be winning any beauty pageants, but they'll do the trick."
—Enslow, ghoulcaller of Nephalia

Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Tidespout Tyrant

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Deathbringer Regent

Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand and there are five or more other creatures on the battlefield, destroy all other creatures.

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Kairi, the Swirling Sky

Flying, ward {3}
When Kairi dies, choose one —
• Return any number of target nonland permanents with total mana value 6 or less to their owners' hands.
• Mill six cards, then return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Counterspell

"Sure, you can get one elsewhere . . . if you want a knockoff that'll break the first time you use it."

Renari, Merchant of Marvels

You may cast Dragon spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Icefall Regent

Flying
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.

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