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.)

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.

Swamp

Bojuka Bog

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

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.

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.

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}.

Big distractions mean tiny nuisances can slip by unnoticed.

Tinybones, Trinket Thief

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent discarded a card this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
{4}{B}{B}: Each opponent with no cards in hand loses 10 life.

Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

The book shrieks horribly until its cover is opened, granting the spirit inside a moment's rest from the painful stirrings of the book's contents.

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Waste Not

Zombie

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

"It's a vicious circle. Stress breeds pain. Pain breeds stress. It's simply beautiful, wouldn't you agree?"
—Vradeen, vampire nocturnus

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

"This might hurt less if you don't fight so hard. But I doubt it."

Liliana's Caress

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

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.

One was spared to tell the gruesome tale.

Raiders' Wake

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.
Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, target opponent discards a card.

The first khans of the Sultai relied on the magic of the rakshasa to ensure the survival of the clan.

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

"Terror corrupts order and paralyzes instinct."
—*Volume III, The Book of Decay*

Words of Waste

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each opponent discards a card instead.

"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.

"Let go of your memories and be reborn."
—Argent Etchings, plate 106, passage 27

Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Noetic Scales

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in their hand.

Memory Jar

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

Liliana, Waker of the Dead Emblem

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

+1: Each player discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.
−3: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
−7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste."

"Give of yourself, for *compleation* awaits the cleansed."
—Nokar, priest of Sheoldred

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

"Even rats hoard their treasures. Are your precious things so different?"
—Izoni

Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Bone Shredder

Flying
Echo {2}{B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.

"The finest minions know what I need without me ever saying a thing."
—Liliana Vess

Liliana's Specter

Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Its last life is spent tormenting your dreams.

Black Cat

When this creature dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Cao Cao, Lord of Wei

{T}: Target opponent discards two cards. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Call to the Grave

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a non-Zombie creature of their choice.
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Dark Ritual

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.)

Murder

When Titania offered peace, Urza merely turned her down. Mishra made her people pay for the insult.

Go for the Throat

"Do not touch a drop. Not yet. I want to watch this so-called slayer's last crisis of faith."
—Olivia Voldaren

Victim of Night

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.

"Such an affliction appears to seek out the pure."
—Byro, plague doctor

Malicious Affliction

Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy.
Destroy target nonblack creature.

Odric resisted the vampire's curse with all his strength. But after a lifetime of fighting monsters, he was doomed to become one himself.

Hero's Downfall

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

Ultimate Price

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.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Liliana developed a fondness for the moment when roaring becomes squealing.

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Beyond pain, beyond obsession and wild despair, there lies a place of twisted power only the most tormented souls can reach.

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

"If fear is the only tool you have left, then you'll never control me."
—Xantcha, to Gix

Unnerve

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Funeral Charm

Choose one —
• Target player discards a card.
• Target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn.
• Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Darkblast

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

"Each syllable chills your veins. Each word rattles your mind."
—Cabal Patriarch

Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

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.

The more you pay for the lesson, the better you'll remember it.

Cruel Tutor

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

Those who hear her go mad with inspiration.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Bitter Ordeal

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles.
Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Faerie Rogue

Bitterblossom

In Lorwyn's brief evenings, the sun pauses at the horizon long enough for a certain species of violet to bloom with the fragrance of mischief.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

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.)

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

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

Her triumph came not from escaping her death, but in claiming her independence.

Liliana's Triumph

Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

"They were all laughing at you after you left, you know. How will you make them pay?"

Night's Whisper

The dead know lessons the living haven't learned.

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

"Conquering your first world is the hardest, after all. My power grew as I moved from world to world, taking anything that would make the next taking easier."
—Ob Nixilis

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

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.)

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

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.

Give away everything so others have nothing.
—Brooch inscription

Null Brooch

{2}, {T}, Discard your hand: Counter target noncreature spell.

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.

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

The Phyrexian death machine awoke, its coldsteel heart imbuing it with sinister new power.

Coldsteel Heart

This artifact enters tapped.
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

It is the imposing heft of a ruler's scepter, the stench of death after a victory in battle, and the mournful wail of an enemy kneeling in supplication. It is power.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it.
During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor

Deathtouch
Whenever a Curse is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to the battlefield attached to you at the beginning of the next end step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may attach a Curse attached to you to one of your opponents. If you do, draw two cards.

Neheb, the Worthy

First strike
Other Minotaurs you control have first strike.
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, Minotaurs you control get +2/+0.
Whenever Neheb deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

In the vast emptiness, Kaalia found she was not alone.

Kaalia of the Vast

Flying
Whenever Kaalia attacks an opponent, you may put an Angel, Demon, or Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that opponent.

General Tazri

When General Tazri enters, you may search your library for an Ally creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Ally creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among those creatures.

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Whenever you cast a Myr spell, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, untap each Myr you control.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Put three +1/+1 counters on each Myr you control. Activate only during your turn.

Phenax, God of Deception

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature.
Creatures you control have "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Beneath crashing waves lies an ocean of secrets waiting to be explored.

Thrasios, Triton Hero

{4}: Scry 1, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, draw a card.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

To gain audience with the hegemon, one must bring a riddle she has not heard.

Sharuum the Hegemon

Flying
When Sharuum enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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