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.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Lake of the Dead

If Lake of the Dead would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

"This is it! All the cryptoliths point here!"
—Jace Beleren

Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}: Return Drownyard Temple from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

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.)

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

Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain 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.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

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

Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominaria itself a casualty of war.

Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Vesuva

You may have Vesuva enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

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

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

If it can't be had here, it can't be had on any world.

High Market

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

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.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls 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, and that spell can't be countered.

Bazaar of Baghdad

{T}: Draw two cards, then discard three cards.

The gods known to the merfolk as Ula, Emeria, and Cosi were nothing more than false memories of a monstrous trinity: the Eldrazi titans Ulamog, Emrakul, and Kozilek.

Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate only if you control seven or more lands.

Its light exposes enemies and lays secrets bare.

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Swamp

"I'm not saying I'm sure it's a trap. I'm just saying it wasn't there yesterday and I'm pretty sure I heard it whisper my name. If you're so curious, you touch it."
—Angus, survivor scout

Sol Ring

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

"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 Mind Stone: Draw a card.

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.

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}.

Zombie

Grave Titan

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

Murderous Rider // Swift End

On an Adventure

Murderous Rider

Lifelink
When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Swift End

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Karn Liberated

+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand.
−3: Exile target permanent.
−14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn Liberated. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

True power is achieved through blood and sweat. But mostly blood.

Vampiric Tutor

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

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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.

Nezumi Shortfang

{1}{B}, {T}: Target opponent discards a card. Then if that player has no cards in hand, flip Nezumi Shortfang.

Stabwhisker the Odious

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player loses 1 life for each card fewer than three in their hand.

Nezumi Shortfang // Stabwhisker the Odious

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.

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.

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

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.

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.

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.

Every facet a portent of Kelemvor's inevitable judgment.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

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.

Little agonies pave the way to greater power.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Phyrexian Reclamation

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

"Your presence at the palace this evening is required."
—Letter from Queen Marchesa

Imperial Seal

"The scythe of time or my blade at your throat—the choice is yours."
—Holux, stronghold racketeer

Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.

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.)

"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.

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Animate Dead

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

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.

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 Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

"The light of my master's guidance traverses all boundaries, even those separating life and death."

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

"For every living person there are generations of dead. Which realm would you rather rule?"
—Liliana Vess

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

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.

"We had years to prepare, while they had mere minutes."
—Kerrick, sleeper agent

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

In Mishra's desperation to destroy his brother, he allowed Gix to destroy him instead.

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Liliana, Untouched by Death

+1: Mill three cards. If at least one Zombie card is milled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
−2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control.
−3: You may cast Zombie spells from your graveyard this turn.

"I have become a gourmet of sorts. Each soul has its own distinctive flavor. The art is in inviting the right company to the feast."

Urborg Syphon-Mage

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Boneyard Aberration

Reassembling Skeleton

"If none of the bones are original, is it even the same skele—aaagh!"
—Mort the Philosopher, last words

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Hate is an everlasting wellspring from which she is eternally sustained.

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Massacre Wurm

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

All that remains of the Cabal are the echoes in its deepest vault. Yet those who hear the echoes feel a power undiminished by the dust of ages.

Magus of the Coffers

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel 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.)

"Her voice is damnation, unyielding and certain."
—Phage the Untouchable

Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Bloodghast

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

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, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

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.)

The greater the suffering, the sweeter the taste.

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

"If our former masters would have us kneel again, they shall feel our defiance slashed across their membranes."

Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

Flying
{X}{B}{B}: Target creature gets -0/-X until end of turn and Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

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