"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 Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Swamp

Mountain

Bojuka Bog

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

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.

Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}.
{2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

Barbarian Ring

{T}: Add {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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}.

Cabal Pit

{T}: Add {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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.

The continent of Guul Draz is a geothermal swampland reeking of heat and decay.

Smoldering Marsh

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

Path of Ancestry

This land 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.)

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}.

Tainted Peak

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

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 token: Draw a card.")

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

Shadowblood Ridge

Temple of Malice

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 {B} or {R}.

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Rakdos Carnarium

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

"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.

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.

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
{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.

Vampire

Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage

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Bloodline Keeper

Flying
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
{B}: Transform this creature. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.

Lord of Lineage

Flying
Other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+2.
{T}: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.

The Sanctum Seekers were the first of the knightly orders to cross the sea and are still the most zealous.

Sanctum Seeker

Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Malakir Bloodwitch

Flying, protection from white
When this creature enters, each opponent loses life equal to the number of Vampires you control. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Eldrazi Spawn

Pawn of Ulamog

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

Olivia, Mobilized for War

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may discard a card. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, it gains haste until end of turn, and it becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.

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 this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Vampire Nocturnus

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is black, this creature and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Zombie

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.

Vampire Hexmage

First strike
Sacrifice this creature: Remove all counters from target permanent.

"Your blood is quite pleasing. A pity there's not enough for both of us."

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Flying, haste
Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Insolent Neonate

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

"If you're not having fun, what's the point of living forever?"

Rakish Heir

Whenever a Vampire you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

"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.

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Heir of Falkenrath // Heir to the Night

Among vampires, there has long been the belief that the urge to feed must be balanced by the poise of nobility.

Heir of Falkenrath

Discard a card: Transform this creature. Activate only once each turn.

The Falkenrath have relinquished all pretense at nobility, losing themselves completely to their all-consuming thirst.

Heir to the Night

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

Cordial Vampire

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

"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 this creature.
This creature has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

"We all hide a little madness behind our sophistication, do we not?"

Anje Falkenrath

Haste
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
Whenever you discard a card, if it has madness, untap Anje Falkenrath.

"Drench these golden streets in the blood of our enemies."

Champion of Dusk

When this creature enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.

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

Butcher of Malakir

Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

"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 this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

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.)

Empires rise and fall, but evil is eternal.

Sengir Vampire

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

"Mortals practice swordplay for a few decades at best. How can they ever attain the exquisite mastery that eternity has to offer?"

Markov Blademaster

Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Some humans willingly offered up their blood, hoping it would grant the vampire families the strength to stave off the Eldrazi.

Bloodthrone Vampire

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Bloodlord of Vaasgoth

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.)
Flying
Whenever you cast a Vampire creature spell, it gains bloodthirst 3.

"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 this creature enters, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

The travelers were warned to watch out for children on the road.

Blood Bairn

Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Stromkirk Occultist

Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Madness {1}{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.)

Blood Tribute

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

It wasn't as much a strategy as a dim instinct to drown their prey.

Feeding Frenzy

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

"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.

"The veil of death hides little from our kind."

Bloodline Necromancer

Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Before tyrants or torturers, there was evil.

Pulse of the Dross

Target player reveals three cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card. Then if that player has more cards in hand than you, return Pulse of the Dross to its owner's hand.

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}

Many peasants secretly admire vampires' glamour and elegance—until they witness a moment of pure bloodlust.

Vampiric Fury

Vampire creatures you control get +2/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. (They deal combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

From the perpetual shadowsmoke that hung above the ship, a silent form emerged, lips curled with malice and anticipation.

Skymarch Bloodletter

Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Down here, things don't stay dead."
—Lavinia

Gutterbones

This creature enters tapped.
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.

Sanguine Soothsayer

Sanguine Bond

"Blood is constant. Every drop I drink, someone must bleed."
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Crimson Muckwader

This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a Swamp.
{2}{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.)

Bloodhall Priest

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, if you have no cards in hand, this creature deals 2 damage to any target.
Madness {1}{B}{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.)

Knight of the Ebon Legion

{2}{B}: This creature gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"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.

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

Vampires of the Markov bloodline pride themselves on their exquisite taste in fashion, art, and "wine of the vein."

Markov Patrician

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Sengir Nosferatu

Flying
{1}{B}, Exile this creature: Create a 1/2 black Bat creature token with flying. It has "{1}{B}, Sacrifice this token: Return an exiled card named Sengir Nosferatu to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord

+1: Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. If it's a Vampire, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
+1: You may sacrifice a Vampire. When you do, Sorin deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
−3: You may put a Vampire creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

"The ravings of the mad are laced with eldritch knowledge."

Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

A circus acrobat in life, she kills with such fluid grace that even her victims are awed by her performance.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Crypt Ghast

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.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

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