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.

Bojuka Bog

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

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.

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.

Swamp

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}.

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.

Barren Moor

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

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.

Sometimes restoring the lost archives of the Jeskai can be as simple as the quiet ruffle of pages and the smell of fresh ink.

Arcane Signet

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

"What do you have that I cannot obtain?"
—Mairsil, the Pretender

Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

"People love to follow fools; they don't feel so alone then."
—Sorine Relicbane, Soldevi Heretic

Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

When tempers run high, it's easy to lose your head.

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Zombies mourn for the living and celebrate those who will soon be given the gift of death.

Innocent Blood

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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.

Opening Orazca unleashed more horrors than just the Immortal Sun.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Zombie

Grave Titan

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

Nezumi Graverobber

{1}{B}: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If no cards are in that graveyard, flip this creature.

Nighteyes the Desecrator

{4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator

In matters of life and death, he trusts his gut.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Summoning it is easy. Controlling it is another matter.

Bloodghast

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

"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.

"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.

Grixis is a world where the only things found in abundance are death and decay. Corpses, whole or in part, are the standard currency among necromancers and demons.

Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

"My power is generosity, in a way. I give my survivors an appreciation for their lives."

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

He enjoys his work, for he sees only the worst Abzan criminals: those who betray their own kin.

Merciless Executioner

"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.

Brain Maggot

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Mesmeric Fiend

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

"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.

You will scream out your innermost secrets just to make it stop.

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

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.

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

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

"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.)

The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

"Die. But die knowing that your pathetic life will yield a great bounty for me."
—Zul Ashur, lich lord

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

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.

Overseer of the Damned

Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Gravebreaker Lamia

Lifelink
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {1} less to cast.

"The blood ritual is complete. The end approaches."

Razaketh's Rite

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"If I die today, I will ensure my death is worthy of legend."

Alesha's Legacy

Target creature you control gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

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

Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Swarm Saboteur

Virus Beetle

"They'll be debugging their code for days before they figure out what happened!"
—Eita, Futurist agent

"One day, the great serpent will rejoin us on Skemfar, and those who've wronged us will taste of our venom."

Elderfang Disciple

"Tell Boss Umezawa there's a new gang moving in on our territory. I'm forwarding their insignia. Watch for it elsewhere."

Nezumi Informant

It was going to be the greatest heist of his unlife.

Tinybones Joins Up

When Tinybones Joins Up enters, any number of target players each discard a card.
Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, any number of target players each mill a card and lose 1 life.

Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When this Class enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card.
{B}: Level 2
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life.
{3}{B}: Level 3
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

"'Victory is survival' is the tenet that guides us. My love, know that I will always ensure your survivial."
—Duvir, Mardu warrior, final letter

Worthy Cost

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

The Raven Man

Bird

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block."
{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

"The alliances were already frayed. All we do is find the loose threads and pluck."
—Lazav

Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Treasure

Gonti, Night Minister

Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.

The priests plead for your anguish and pray for your despair.

Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random.

Let's Play a Game

Delirium — Choose one. If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, choose one or more instead.
• Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Each opponent discards two cards.
• Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Urza thought it a crusade. Xantcha knew it was a robbery.

Ill-Gotten Gains

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

When her beloved pet died, the artificer turned to necromancy.

Refurbished Familiar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.

Heartless Pillage

Target opponent discards two cards.
Raid — If you attacked this turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

In the stronghold's dungeons, the shadows hide in the vermin.

Stronghold Rats

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

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

Unnerve

Ears ringing and head throbbing, all Tarvin could do was wait to see what would finish the job.

Cracked Skull

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

Myojin of Night's Reach

Myojin of Night's Reach enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it.
Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.

Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

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.

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

"Don't worry, little friends. We will not be hungry much longer."

Vampire Soulcaller

Flying
This creature can't block.
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

"You have returned from fire, traitor. This time I will see you leave as ashes."
—Zurgo, to Sarkhan Vol

Despise

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.

A gargoyle's voice reaches pitches that will shatter glass and warp bone.

Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

"You were so eager to take and consume. Yet when asked to give, you refuse?"

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Cruelclaw's Heist

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card. If the gift was promised, you may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

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.

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.

Breya, Etherium Shaper

Thopter

When Breya enters, create two 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.
{2}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Choose one —
• Breya deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
• You gain 5 life.

He has journeyed where none have been before. Now he returns to ensure that none follow.

Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

To save this plane, he must forsake all others.

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

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